831, the state's wiretapping and eavesdropping statute subjected an individual who listened to a conversation on a telephone extension with the knowledge and consent of only one party to criminal and civil penalties because such an action violated the speaker's privacy. Civil action is authorized. The State makes it a crime to violate the privacy of another is a person knowingly or purposely records or causes to be recorded any conversation by use of a hidden electronic or mechanical device which reproduces a human conversation without the knowledge of all parties to the conversation. Civil action is not statutorily provided. Violating the statute is a misdemeanor.
Civil action is authorized.
Pennsylvania has a business use exception, like Maryland's. Violating the statute is a third degree felony. Civil action is authorized. Also, an extension telephone is not a recording or transmitting device for the purposes of this section. 23 Wash. App.