California Public Utilities Code

§ 2891

PUC § 2891 Effective Jan 1, 2026Div. 1 · Part 2 · Ch. 10 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)A telephone or telegraph corporation shall not make available to any other person or corporation, without first obtaining the residential subscriber’s consent, in writing, any of the following information:

(1)The subscriber’s personal calling patterns, including any listing of the telephone or other access numbers called by the subscriber, but excluding the identification to the person called of the person calling and the telephone number from which the call was placed, subject to the restrictions in Section 2893, and also excluding billing information concerning the person calling that federal law or regulation requires a telephone corporation to provide to the person called.

(2)The residential subscriber’s credit or other personal financial information, except when the corporation is ordered by the commission to provide this information to any electrical, gas, heat, telephone, telegraph, or water corporation, or centralized credit check system, for the purpose of determining the creditworthiness of new utility subscribers.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 347, Sec. 2. (AB 1303) Effective January 1, 2026.