Submitted 4 months ago by Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world to [deleted]
This just happened to me and I am a little shook. Very weird. I was talking to my friend in NYC and randomly this voice came on the line saying “this call is being recorded”
He heard it as well. We both have iPhones and were just talking over the PSTN. Wtf
Not part way through a phone call. Only as part of the initial call setup or part of the on hold loop.
If it has only happened once then it might be your call was routed a weird way around the phone network.
Because everyone’s is already being recorded if you’re in the US placing a phone call. Not cuz they were accidentally just happened to catch you and some other guys wiretap. They don’t bother with wiretaps except to justify what they’re already doing in front of a court.
That’s pretty creepy. I had computer voices asking Mr whether I agree to being recorded for training purposes when calling customer support and the likes. But never during a private call.
Maybe contact/write to your provider or something?
I always answer my phone with “this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes” just to scare off scammers anyway. 🤷🏻♂️
Many telecom operators have a special code that is used for recording. When you’re making a call, you or the other party may press the record button. This will save both the input via microphone and the output via the speakers as one audio file for future use. When you press this button a special code is sent back to the telecom.
Until recently most places in the USA did not do anything with this code. But now it’s catching up to the rest of the world. Once this is pressed, a voice will tell both parties that they are being recorded in the recording. This is so that you can’t later say “I didn’t know they were recording me!” and if you have every-party consent laws, then that recording is illegal so it cannot be used as evidence and the person recording could actually be charged with a crime.
You can start the recording with an accidental face press, pocket press, keypad entry, or a malicious app. If either of you accidentally started it, then there’s your answer. If neither of you did, then most likely one of you is infected or one of you were connected to a relay tower decrypting your calls and then passing them through to a real tower. Whoever was operating this relay station was a n00b idiot though. Both are concerning.
Do one of ya sell drugs?
If that happened, I would quickly hang up and have my provider change my number.
spiderman@ani.social 4 months ago
This usually happens when the person you call is trying to record the call using Google’s “phone” app.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, sounds like a phone call recording app that is allowed to operate on the App Store under the condition that the recording is loudly announced.
grue@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I really hate Google dictating the use of two-party consent even in my one-party consent state. I have every right to record phone calls without having it play that message, but not the ability because of Google’s gatekeeping!
solitaire@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Oh god, I really hope my phone doesn’t do that when it records. The recording button is on the screen during calls and I accidentally hit it all the time.
spiderman@ani.social 4 months ago
if you hit record, and it starts to record you will be able to hear the alert message too