Is privacy civil law or constitutional law?

In Spain, the right to privacy is enshrined in section 18 of the 1978 Constitution. This section has four paragraphs, some of which concern chiefly civil relations, some concern mostly criminal liabilities. read more

The Constitution is both civil law and criminal law. The right to privacy is not actually stated in the Constitution, rather, our Supreme Court has found it there based on various legal theories. The right to be free from unreasonable searches is part of the right to privacy under criminal law, and that can be found in the Constitution. read more

The privacy laws of the United States deal with several different legal concepts. One is the invasion of privacy, a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his or her private affairs, discloses his or her private information, publicizes him or her in a false light, or appropriates his or her name for personal gain. read more

Customer Electrical and Natural Gas Usage Data - California Civil Code sections 1798.98-1798.99.This law extends many of the consumer privacy protections that apply to customer usage data maintained by electric and gas utilities to other third-party businesses that may handle the customer usage data. read more