Is it legal to recording phone calls in Belgium?
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Belgium's data protection authority says it is in principle prohibited to record electronic conversations, including professional phone conversations, unless a recognized exception applies.
Conditions
What would need to be true
All persons involved normally need to consent unless a specific technical or legal exception applies, such as certain call-center quality control or lawful recording of commercial transactions.
Exceptions
Known carve-outs or edge cases
The Belgian DPA identifies exceptions for call-center quality monitoring, lawful recording of commercial transactions, and situations specifically authorized by law.
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Enforcement
How this may be enforced
Employers must also comply with GDPR duties, including transparency, purpose limitation and storage information for the parties involved.
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Australia
Australia does not have a single clean national yes or no answer for recording phone calls because the OAIC says relevant state and territory laws apply and specifically notes laws covering the monitoring and recording of telephone conversations.
Austria
Austria’s criminal-law rule on recording non-public speech can apply to call recording, so there is no clean national yes or no without checking consent and legal authority.
Canada
Recording a phone call in Canada is not a flat yes or no because a private communication cannot be knowingly intercepted unless one of the parties consents or another legal exception applies.
Denmark
Official Danish sources say business call recording is governed by the general data-protection rules, and secret listening to or recording telephone calls between other people is prohibited.
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