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  "attribution": "The Insurance Investigator's Playbook — theclaimsplaybook.net",
  "jurisdiction": "DE",
  "name": "Delaware",
  "question": "Does recording a conversation in Delaware require one party's consent or all parties' consent?",
  "rule": "one-party",
  "ruleLabel": "One-party consent",
  "commonlyClassifiedAs": "one-party consent",
  "commonLabelIsMisleading": false,
  "summary": "Delaware is a one-party consent jurisdiction: a participant in the conversation may record it without telling the others.",
  "nuance": "Two Delaware statutes point in opposite directions on the same act. The wiretap chapter, § 2402(c)(4), is plainly one-party. But § 1335(a)(4) (violation of privacy, a class A misdemeanour) separately reaches intercepting a private conversation 'without the consent of all parties thereto'. Courts have followed the wiretap chapter, but the conflict is real and unresolved on the face of the code.",
  "nuanceIsEditorial": true,
  "nuanceVerified": false,
  "casesCited": [],
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  "statute": "Del. Code Ann. tit. 11, § 2402(c)(4)",
  "federalFloor": {
    "statute": "18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(d)",
    "rule": "one-party",
    "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511",
    "note": "Federal law permits recording with one party's consent unless the recording is made to commit a crime or tort. Federal law is the FLOOR; a state may and many do require more. Where an interstate call touches two states with different rules, the safe assumption is the stricter one."
  },
  "verification": {
    "status": "verified",
    "statusLabel": "Verified against the government source",
    "verifiedOn": "2026-09-21",
    "sourceUrl": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/c024/sc01/index.html",
    "sourcePublisher": "Delaware Code Online — Delaware General Assembly / Division of Research",
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  "disclaimer": "Reference information, not legal advice. Statutes change and courts read them differently; confirm the current text with the linked primary source and counsel licensed in the jurisdiction before relying on it.",
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    "title": "Delaware recording consent law",
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    "citationText": "\"Delaware recording consent law\", The Insurance Investigator's Playbook, https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/DE",
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