Court Opinion

ID: 9725105
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 11:30:29.780681+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:10.520257
License: Public Domain

WHITE, P. J.
I concur and I have concluded that Justice Scott with his customary acumen has correctly stated the Privitera court’s view that California’s right of privacy was intended “to prevent encroachment upon personal freedom and security caused by increased surveillance and data collection activity.” However, I do not understand this to be necessarily Justice Scott’s personally held view as to the metes and bounds of the right of privacy. It is certainly not my view. In my mind, I continue to read and understand what our Supreme Court in White v. Davis (1975) 13 Cal.3d 757, 774 [120 Cal.Rptr. 94, 533 P.2d 222] recognized, that “the general concept of privacy relates, of course, to an enormously broad and diverse field of personal action and belief...” I agree with the observation of our Chief Justice in her dissent in Privitera, “[t]he right of privacy is a concept of as yet undetermined parameters.” (23 Cal.3d at p. 711.) Manifestly, this is the case when the “legislative history” of article I, section 1 of our Constitution garnered from the election brochure argument, states in pertinent part: “The right of privacy is the right to be left alone. It is a fundamental and compelling interest. It protects our homes, our families, our thoughts, our emotions, our expressions, our personalities, our freedom of communion and our freedom to associate with the people we choose.”
Actually, what we hold herein, the philosopher foretold when he admonished: “And no matter how private and unique those attitudes and values [attitudes and values at the inner core of your being] may seem to you, they are conditioned by your entanglement in the common venture.” (Gardner, Morale (1978) atp. 15.)