Is it legal to surreptitiously record a conversation with a visitor in my own house?
This behaviour may not be permitted, unless there is a specific legal reason for it. Possible reasons include: making a record of a public or private area for security purposes, recording someone who is in the process of committing a crime, and gathering evidence from a person suspected of criminal activity. Exceptions tend to fall under the umbrella of security, law enforcement, and media investigations. Sometimes there is a very fine line between what is acceptable and what is not. Recording individuals in your home without their consent could be considered an invasion of privacy depending on where you live and for what purposes you use the recordings. The individual subject to surveillance may have a legal basis for recovering the material from you and, perhaps, having you fined. This can be a delicate situation, because if the recordings you make are of people who do not like this type of surveillance or have not granted you permission to record them, you might find yourself in leg
