California Supreme Court Confirms Call-Recording Statute Applies to Parties and Nonparties Alike | Troutman Pepper
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: California Penal Code Section 632.7, part of California's Invasion of Privacy Act, prohibits the recording of a communication between a cellular or cordless telephone and another telephone without the consent of all parties. Previously, a California Court of Appeal interpreted the statute as only applying to third-party eavesdroppers and not the actual parties to the call. However, in Smith v. LoanMe, the California Supreme Court reversed that decision and held that Section 632.7 applies to both parties and nonparties. This decisio...