California Invasion of Privacy Act, recording cellular and cordless calls without all-party consent (Cal. Penal Code 632.7(a))
For any call with a cell or cordless phone on one end, California requires the consent of all parties to record it, and the section has no confidentiality condition. Most customer calls touch a mobile phone, so all-party consent is the basis a California call archive needs.
Dated 19 Oct 2026Source checked 19 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“(a) Every person who, without the consent of all of the parties to a communication, intercepts or receives and intentionally records, or assists in the interception or reception and intentional recordation of, a communication transmitted between two cellular radio telephones, a cellular radio telephone and a landline telephone, two cordless telephones, a cordless telephone and a landline telephone, or a cordless telephone and a cellular radio telephone, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment.”
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