Your papers please

[Steve Furlong]

Duncan Frissell wrote:
> 
> Don't do it in Massachusetts.  They consider it wiretapping.  Most states
> aren't so funny.  But why take it out.  Leave it in your pocket (save when
> clearing the metal detector, of ocurse).

MA wiretapping law applies only to secret recording. In theory, holding
the thing in plain sight should be ok.

That's the written law. Case law might be different, and I might know it
if I were a Massachusetts lawyer, which I ain't. Also, as measl pointed
out, jackbooted thugs can trash the device and lie about it later. (I
had a similar encounter which resulted in my equipment being smashed and
the pigs lying about it when I complained. I wasn't arrested in that
incident, though.)


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