Can calls be recorded in Texas?
A participant may record without notifying other parties. Confirm no atypical privacy carve-out before a shopping run.
What Argus360 shops here: Voice, text, email, and web form. Calls are recorded and scored.
State profile · TX
Call-recording consent, the enforcement record with its sources, and what an outside audit can run in Texas.
A participant may record without notifying other parties. Confirm no atypical privacy carve-out before a shopping run.
What Argus360 shops here: Voice, text, email, and web form. Calls are recorded and scored.
Statutes in play: FTC Act § 5; Equal Credit Opportunity Act
Administrative complaint against three Dallas-area David McDavid dealerships and a general manager named personally, alleging payment packing and unauthorized add-ons. The discrimination count was withdrawn in August 2025; a joint motion to withdraw the matter from adjudication was filed August 27, 2026. Status: pending.
View sourceNone on record. Consent is governed at the state level.
Both conditions that raise exposure are present in Texas: an active enforcement record and calls that can be recorded. A shopper's recording of a mispriced quote or an undisclosed add-on is a dated record here, and regulators have already used the same conduct against dealers. Argus360 runs the full four-channel shop in Texas, so the store holds its own record before anyone else builds one.
Yes. Texas is a one-party consent state, so a participant in the call can record it. Governing statute: State follows the federal one-party rule: a participant may record the call..
High. Asbury (David McDavid) · litigated. In the Matter of Asbury Automotive Group, No. D-9436, August 16, 2024.
Voice, text, email, and web form. Calls are recorded and scored.
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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