CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE
SECTION 1798-1798.1
1798. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the
Information Practices Act of 1977.
1798.1. 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.
(c) In order to protect the privacy of individuals, it is
necessary that the maintenance and dissemination of personal
information be subject to strict limits.