Privacy: lodging and common carriers.

Existing law requires a business to take all reasonable steps to dispose of customer records within its custody or control containing personal information, including information that identifies a particular individual, such as his or her name, address, physical characteristics, or description, when the records are no longer to be retained by the business. Existing law also prohibits a public or private employer from providing voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to access, review, or obtain the employer's employee records without a subpoena or judicial warrant. This bill would, except as specified, prohibit specified entities that offer lodging, or any employee or agent thereof, from disclosing, producing, providing, releasing, transferring, disseminating, or otherwise communicating all or any part of a guest record, as defined, orally, in writing, or by electronic or any other means to a 3rd party, other than a California peace officer, without a court-issued subpoena, warrant, or order, as specified. The bill would also similarly prohibit an owner or operator of a private or charter bus transportation company, or any employee or agent thereof, from disclosing, producing, providing, releasing, transferring, disseminating, or otherwise communicating all or any part of a passenger manifest, as defined, orally, in writing, or by electronic or any other means to a 3rd party, other than a California peace officer, without a court-issued subpoena, warrant, or order, as specified.