Ambient consent gate

Deny by default, keyed on jurisdiction and modality. The verdict comes from the platform's live policy table; each evaluation is recorded in the audit trail.

All fifty states, the District of Columbia and the five inhabited territories are loaded — 56 jurisdictions. Three are not a single rule: Oregon is all-party in person but one-party over telecommunications, Connecticut and Nevada the reverse — which is why the gate is keyed on modality and not on the state alone. Michigan and Vermont refuse outright: their law is genuinely unsettled, and an unsettled rule resolves against capture, never for it. This is the platform's policy table, not legal advice — a deployment confirms every citation against current law before it records anything.

Source. Classifications and citations are taken from Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C. — Laws on Recording Conversations in All 50 States, retrieved 2026-08-30. Where this table departs from that chart it departs toward refusal, and says so: the chart classifies Michigan one-party on Sullivan v. Gray while noting the statute reads all-party, so a contested rule is denied here rather than resolved. The five territories are outside that chart entirely — no source was located, so they deny too. An unsourced jurisdiction is an unresolved one.