State profile · CA
Call-recording consent, the enforcement record with its sources, and what an outside audit can run in California.
All parties must consent before a call may be recorded.
What Argus360 shops here: Text, email, and web form. Voice is excluded because a call cannot be recorded here without every party agreeing.
Statutes in play: California SB 766 (CARS Act); California Consumers Legal Remedies Act; California AB 2311 (add-on / GAP)
Signed October 6, 2025; operative October 1, 2026. Total-price disclosure on any listing referencing a specific vehicle, add-on limits, and a mandatory three-day right to cancel on used vehicles priced at $50,000 or less. Independent of the vacated federal CARS Rule.
View sourceNone on record. Consent is governed at the state level.
Enforcement is active in California, but a voice shop cannot run because every party on a call must agree to recording. Argus360 covers text, email, and web form here, which is where pricing, certification claims, and add-on disclosures are put in writing. The written channels carry most of the conduct regulators have named.
No, not without every party agreeing. California is an all-party consent state for telephone recording. Governing statute: Cal. Penal Code § 632.
High. CARS Act (SB 766) · operative Oct 1, 2026. California SB 766, the California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act, October 1, 2026.
Text, email, and web form. Voice is excluded because a call cannot be recorded here without every party agreeing.
Reviewed September 10, 2026. Argus360 scores against the law as written and does not provide legal advice. Statute citations and enforcement records carry their sources above; verify against the primary source before relying on them.
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