Except as otherwise provided in NRS 179.410 to 179.515, inclusive, and 704.195, a person shall not intrude upon the privacy of other persons by surreptitiously listening to, monitoring or recording, or attempting to listen to, monitor or record, by means of any mechanical, electronic or other listening device, any private conversation engaged in by the other persons, or disclose the existence, content, substance, purport, effect or meaning of any conversation so listened to, monitored or recorded, unless authorized to do so by one of the persons engaging in the conversation.
NRS 200.650
Unauthorized, surreptitious intrusion of privacy by listening device prohibited
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Berger v. New York (1967)
Most recently applied in Project Veritas v. Michael Schmidt (July 2023)
(Added to NRS by 1957, 335; A 1973, 1749; 1989, 660)
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Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.