Recording Customer Service Calls Without Permission Violates Privacy Laws

While recording customer service calls is a perfectly normal practice for many businesses, those that do so without the customer’s permission may violate federal and state privacy laws.

Several businesses, including AMF Bowling, are currently under investigation for recording customer service calls without consent. If you believe you have been targeted by a company like AMF Bowling with illegal call recording, you may be able to join a class action lawsuit investigation.

Recording Customer Service Calls

Businesses will often have a policy of recording customer service calls. This is generally done for quality assurance purposes, or for their records. Recording customer service calls like this is often perfectly legal, and you have likely been informed about these kinds of calls many times.

You’ll often hear a short notice about how the call is being recorded for quality assurance, or some variation on that theme. This warning is given to allow the listener to opt out of being recorded. It is only when businesses make a practice of recording customer service calls, but not warning customers that the calls are being recorded, that privacy laws may have been violated.

If you are a California resident and believe you have been subject to a business like AMF Bowling illegally recording customer service calls, you may be able to join a class action lawsuit investigation, and even be entitled to compensation.

California Call Recording Laws

Laws regarding recording customer service calls under California invasion of privacy law are stricter than such laws at the federal level. Under California law, entities, including businesses like AMF Bowling, are not allowed to record a phone call without first obtaining the permission of all parties on the call.

The key is that the consumer must be warned that the call is being recorded. This is intended to be a chance for the consumer to opt out of the recording altogether. These warnings are often automated, and don’t give a chance to respond with a yes or a no.

However, it’s not actually necessary to respond verbally to grant or deny permission for the recording to take place. In order to opt out, all a consumer has to do is hang up, which is enough to imply that permission has not been granted. Staying on the line, conversely, implies consent to be recorded.

If you believe that your call was recorded without your permission, you may have been the target of illegal call recording under California invasion of privacy law. A few major companies have been hit with lawsuits over illegally recording customer service calls. Some of these lawsuits have ended in multi-million dollar settlements.

While California invasion of privacy law protects anyone who called or was called by someone else while in the state of California, this particular Class Action investigation applies specifically to California residents.

If you are a California resident and have been subjected to illegal call recording, you may be able to seek compensation by participating in a California illegal call recording Class Action lawsuit.

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If you live in California and you did not receive a warning when calling a toll-free number, your call may have been recorded in violation of California law, and you may be entitled to compensation. See if you qualify to file a California call recording class action lawsuit.

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