California
Everyone in the conversation must consent.
Every party to a confidential communication must consent. California is the strictest and most-litigated all-party state, and the one worth assuming applies whenever you are unsure.
As of .
- Rule
- All-party consent
- Statute
- Cal. Penal Code § 632
What Scribe does about it
Scribe does not decide which rule applies to your conversation, and it will not tell you that a recording is permitted. What it does is make the recording obvious while it is happening: it starts only when you tap record, the screen says it is recording, and the app announces it out loud at the start — so the people in the room can object before there is anything to object to.
In an all-party jurisdiction that announcement is how consent gets asked for. In a one-party jurisdiction it is how you avoid the argument later.