California Supreme Court· 3/24/1975

White v. Davis

Citations

533 P.2d 222
13 Cal. 3d 757
120 Cal. Rptr. 94
1975 Cal. LEXIS 208

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the \general concept of privacy relates ... to an enormously broad and diverse field of personal action and belief\; the \moving force behind the new constitutional provision was\ informational privacy
“The inherent legitimacy of the police ‘intelligence gathering’ function does not grant the police the unbridled power to pursue that function by any and all means.”
\`The right of privacy is the right to be left alone.'\
complaint stated a prima facie violation of the right to privacy under the compelling interest test where police officers posed as university students to make covert records of professors and students
recording violated analogous privacy provisions of the Alaska Constitution
recording violated analogous privacy provisions of the Alaska Constitution

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