{"id":379,"date":"2006-10-09T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T13:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-legal-news\/bugging-offices-is-not-a-crime-in-united-kingdom\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:32:44","slug":"bugging-offices-is-not-a-crime-in-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-legal-news\/bugging-offices-is-not-a-crime-in-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugging Offices is Not a Crime ( in United Kingdom )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Register is reporting that bugging offices in the UK is not a crime.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bugging offices in the UK is not a criminal offence, according to surveillance and legal experts speaking to OUT-LAW radio. While recording a phone conversation is a criminal offence, someone could place a recording device in an office legally, they said.<\/p>\n<p>In an investigation into corporate surveillance techniques, the weekly technology law podcast OUT-LAW discovered that no offence is committed by placing a bug in a workplace to secretly record conversations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2006\/10\/05\/bugging_not_a_crime_in_uk\/\">Bugging offices is not a crime (in UK)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register is reporting that bugging offices in the UK is not a crime. Bugging offices in the UK is not a criminal offence, according to surveillance and legal experts speaking to OUT-LAW radio. While recording a phone conversation is a criminal offence, someone could place a recording device in an office legally, they said. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-legal-news\/bugging-offices-is-not-a-crime-in-united-kingdom\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Bugging Offices is Not a Crime ( in United Kingdom )<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-legal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}