Iowa’s keeping up with the times in the protection of privacy. Assistant attorney general Doug Marek says the state updated its wiretap law in 1999 to include faxes and e-mail so there are criminal safeguards for privacy. You can record a conversation if you’re taking part in it, Marek explains, but can’t tap someone else’s talk unless one party gives consent. But as for those mini-video cameras, they may be a loophole in the law.Even the new wiretap law talks about “communication” but if there’s no talk on the tape, it isn’t covered. Marek says picture-only tape may be an area Iowa law has to deal with in the future, and it’s at the heart of a current case where a landlord’s accused of spying on tenants
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