California Civil Code

§ 1798.1

CIV § 1798.1Div. 3 · Title 1.8 · Part 4 · Ch. 1 · Art. 1

Statute text

The Legislature declares that the right to privacy is a personal and fundamental right protected by Section 1 of Article I of the Constitution of California and by the United States Constitution and that all individuals have a right of privacy in information pertaining to them. The Legislature further makes the following findings:

(a)The right to privacy is being threatened by the indiscriminate collection, maintenance, and dissemination of personal information and the lack of effective laws and legal remedies.

(b)The increasing use of computers and other sophisticated information technology has greatly magnified the potential risk to individual privacy that can occur from the maintenance of personal information.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 709.