First, does the recording of university dormitory violate privacy?
It depends.
Generally speaking, private recordings cannot be used as evidence, but they can be used as evidence if they are obtained in a way that does not infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of others or violate the prohibitive provisions of the law.
According to Article 68 of the Supreme People's Court's Provisions on Evidence in Civil Proceedings, "Evidence obtained by infringing upon the lawful rights and interests of others or violating the prohibitive provisions of laws cannot be used as the basis for ascertaining the facts of a case", whatever evidence, including unauthorized recording, may be obtained by infringing upon the lawful rights and interests of others or violating the prohibitive provisions of laws, otherwise it will be excluded as illegal evidence.
In addition, according to Article 70, paragraph 3, "If one party presents the following evidence, and the other party raises an objection but there is no evidence to the contrary, the people's court shall confirm its probative force: (3) Audio-visual materials supported by other evidence and obtained by legal means, or copies verified with audio-visual materials". As a kind of audio-visual materials, audio recordings can be used as evidence as long as they are supported by other evidence.
Second, private recording must meet certain conditions.
1, the acquisition of recorded evidence must comply with the provisions of the law, and shall not infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of others or violate the prohibitive provisions of the law;
2. Recorded evidence must be supported by other evidence and cannot be used as evidence alone.
In judicial practice, to determine whether private recording is illegal is mainly whether the recording behavior infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of others or the prohibitive provisions of the law. The following situations are more common.
1. It is not illegal to record conversations and phone calls in general.
2. If you secretly install eavesdropping devices in other people's homes for secret recording, it is obviously an infringement of others' privacy, and such recording is illegal.
3. It is illegal when the existing laws and regulations explicitly prohibit recording. For example, the relevant meeting of the party and government organs has announced the prohibition of audio and video recording, so the audio recording obtained on this occasion is illegal.
In a word, the key to judge whether the recording is illegal is to judge whether the recording violates the existing laws and infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of others.
Through my introduction, I can understand that whether recording in university dormitory infringes privacy depends on the actual situation, and private recording must meet certain conditions to become evidence.