This summer, Mitt Romney visited a private home in Boca Raton and delivered his now highly publicized 47 percent analysis. Secretly recorded, that speech has since been exhaustively covered by the media.
But was that recording and its subsequent widespread dissemination legal? In Florida, recordings of any communications are governed by Federal and State Privacy law, and Florida’s own common law tort of intrusion.
Federal Wiretap Act
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