About RecordPhoneCall.com
A library, not a gadget. This site is an editorial reference for the law and practice of recording phone calls. We are not a law firm, not a software vendor, and not anyone’s lawyer.
What this site is
RecordPhoneCall.com publishes plain-English explanations of the statutes, regulations, and cases that govern when a phone call may be recorded and what must be disclosed to whom. We cover all fifty US states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, federal law, and seventeen international jurisdictions. We also document how recording actually works on the platforms people use, from iPhones to Microsoft Teams.
Every legal page on this site cites primary sources by section number and carries a visible last reviewed date. We treat dates as part of the content, not metadata. A page reviewed eighteen months ago tells you something important about how much you should trust it today.
What this site is not
- Not legal advice. Nothing here creates an attorney–client relationship. The information describes the law as we understood it on the review date. If anything here matters to a real decision — criminal exposure, evidence in a proceeding, employment, a confidential source — consult a lawyer in the jurisdiction.
- Not a product. We do not sell a call recording app. We review the ones that exist, including their failure modes.
Who maintains it
The site is published by a small editorial team.
Our editorial standards are documented in the editorial policy. Our research process, source hierarchy, and update cadence are documented in the methodology. Corrections are tracked publicly on the corrections page.
How we make money
The site carries display advertising and, on a small number of app review pages, affiliate links. Affiliate relationships are disclosed inline next to the link — never silently. We do not accept payment for favorable coverage, do not let vendors review content before publication, and do not change a recommendation in response to advertiser pressure. If we did, the site would be worthless to the people we are trying to serve.
Why this site exists
Call recording sits in a particularly hostile patch of legal territory: thirteen US states require all parties to consent, the remaining states and federal law require only one, several states have carved out narrow exceptions for evidence of crimes against the recording party, and the rule for cross-border calls is genuinely unsettled. On top of that, platform behavior changes almost yearly. Most of what is published on this topic is either out of date, marketing for a recording app, or a court-blog summary stripped of nuance. A reliable, dated reference is genuinely useful, and writing one is straightforward work.
Contact
For corrections, source suggestions, or notice of a statutory amendment we have missed, see contact or report a specific page issue through the corrections form.