#secretrecording

President Trump’s longtime fixer Michael Cohen secretly recorded an almost two-hour conversation with CNN reporter Chris Cuomo.

My boyfriend has recorded us arguing for months without my knowledge. Can my boyfriend legally record our face-to-face arguments on his phone? Or simply, even when we are not arguing?

The short answer: Yes.

In Queensland, it's not illegal to simply record a conversation you're involved in (either over the phone or face-to-face) without the consent of the other people involved in the conversation, but there are restrictions on what you can do with the recording.

For private communications, the Invasion of Privacy Act 1971 (Qld) applies. In short - and contrary to the position in some other jurisdictions in Australia - it is lawful in Queensland for a participant in a private conversation to record that conversation, even if the other person(s) involved do not know they are being recorded. Provided that the person doing the recording is a participant in the conversation, then no offence is committed.

The only way someone could blackmail me is to record me talking to my dog when we’re alone