California Codes, Civil Code - CIV, Division 3 — Obligations, Part 4 — Obligations Arising from Particular Transactions, Title 1.81 — Customer Records, Section 1798.81
A business shall take all reasonable steps to dispose, or arrange for the disposal, of customer records within its custody or control containing personal information when the records are no longer to be retained by the business by (a) shredding, (b) erasing, or (c) otherwise modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or undecipherable through any means.
Notes
Requires a business to take all reasonable steps to dispose of customer records in its custody or control that contain personal information when the business no longer retains those records. Disposal may be accomplished by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information so that it becomes unreadable or undecipherable by any means.
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