{"page":"/blog/tracking-pixel-wiretap-party-exception","modified":"2026-11-10","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","columns":["Provision","What it says","Source"],"rows":[["18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(d)","The federal exception covers a party or prior consent of one party, subject to a criminal or tortious purpose limit.","Source text"],["18 U.S.C. § 2511(1)(a)","The federal rule addresses intentional interception and procuring another person to intercept.","Source text"],["18 U.S.C. § 2511(1)(c)–(d)","Separate provisions address knowing disclosure and use of contents obtained through an interception that violates the subsection.","Source text"],["Cal. Penal Code § 632, as quoted in Frasco, ECF 776, pp. 8–9","California’s confidential communications provision concerns intentional eavesdropping or recording without all parties’ consent.","Source text"]],"sourceUrls":[["https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511"],["https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511"],["https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511"],["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cand-3_21-cv-00757/pdf/USCOURTS-cand-3_21-cv-00757-9.pdf"]]}