Ask The Consumerists: Who Owns Our CSR Records?

Question: when your call is recorded for “quality control”… who owns the call?

Do we as consumers, as owners of our own vocal cords, as speakers of words coming out of our mouths, have a legal right to those recordings?

Can you call up and request copies or request their destruction?

Find out and tell us!

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