This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Information Practices Act of 1977.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1798
General Provisions and Legislative Findings
Known as the Information Practices Act
The act spans §§ 1798 to 1798.78 (64 sections).
Applied in 43 court decisions — leading case 2 Cal. 4th 556 - Burden v. Snowden (1992)
Most recently applied in 10 Cal. 5th 116 - People v. Suarez (August 2020)
Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 709.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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