Totally off topic, apart from the fact that it relates to some programmes that feature cars.
What is the law with regards to secretly recording conversations? I see numerous examples on comsumer programmes which seek to unearth unscrupulous traders, where a journalist equipped with a hidden camera will pose as a consumer, record a conversation and then use this as evidence to confront the trader at a later date. I can even think of a Top Gear episode where Rover had refused to allow them a test drive, so James May went to a dealer with a secret camera in his bag, and recorded a car review. Not that he was criticising the Rover dealer, but it still involved a secret recording which was then broadcast.
Mrs. K tells me it is illegal to secretly record a conversation to later use as evidence, but this seems to be exactly what a lot of these programmes do.
What is the law with regards to secretly recording conversations? I see numerous examples on comsumer programmes which seek to unearth unscrupulous traders, where a journalist equipped with a hidden camera will pose as a consumer, record a conversation and then use this as evidence to confront the trader at a later date. I can even think of a Top Gear episode where Rover had refused to allow them a test drive, so James May went to a dealer with a secret camera in his bag, and recorded a car review. Not that he was criticising the Rover dealer, but it still involved a secret recording which was then broadcast.
Mrs. K tells me it is illegal to secretly record a conversation to later use as evidence, but this seems to be exactly what a lot of these programmes do.