IANAL, but I believe most of the "expectation of privacy" provisions have come from court cases. If that is the case, then it's kind of hard to track down the actual current state of the law.
There are plenty of "well duh" examples one can think of to show why this is fairly important, otherwise you'd have a law similar to the GFSZA, which makes almost literally every non-permitted gun carrier a felon.
An easy one: mom video taping kids birthday party at McDonalds... happens to catch a conversation of a nearby party not participating. FELON for life!!
Do you think that is good law?
TFred
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You're right Tfred.
This law was tested when Doug Wilder's cell phone conversations were recorded.
Going from memory it was determined that listening to calls like cellphone or landline was OK but could not be repeated but non electronic communication in public was OK and could be repeated.
I don't have the cases handy though.
The states that are now charging people under their wiretap laws for videoing police, are now finding the courts reluctant to go along with it.
Another easy one. The evening news getting a police officer verbally abusing a jaywalker.
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