1) What if I am making a documentary about the busiest street

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1) What if I am making a documentary about the busiest street of New York - Times Square? Should I get consent of each and every one? No! For sure! Then WHY should I get a consent from a single person on a calm street?

2) "Tell him in the beginning" has to be clarified as well. If I plan to use a phone call recording in a court or for commercial purpose, is it a MUST to provide a PROVE that the other party AGREED for the call to be recorded? If the answer is yes, then this would mean most of the authority officers, company reception lines while DO automatically record phone calls can NEVER provide ANY PROVE that the other party is OK with it.

"This call may be monitored and recorded for quality purpose to better serve you".

This is the only message you may hear before the call is answered. So what? There is no recording with MY VOICE stating MY AGREEMENT. The fact that I did not hang up does not mean that I agree. I may not even hear that massage before their answer or I may even have no choice, but to continue the call. Finally, the other party can easily paste in post a similar warning message at the beginning of a call to justify the recording.

3) I am not sure if the service below is popular in the Western Market, but here in my country it is very popular. When you call someone, you may hear a music, a short piece from a movie or play, or any other audio message instead of a tone sound "beeeep, beeeeeeeeep, beeeeeeeeep, ...". I can set that message to be "This call is recorded", but 99.99% of those calling me would consider the message is joke! Can that message indemnify me? I doubt....

4) What if, as in my case, I have a corrupted officer on the other end trying to rob me??? I HAVE TO record him secretly to have a prove of his wrongdoings. And THE ONLY purpose of the recording in this case is to play it in court!