Montana Senators Unanimously Approve Neural Privacy Bill
Montana's senate voted 50-0 Tuesday to pass a bill that adds neural data to the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act. It’s now in the House.
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SB-163 would also modify the law to allow people to volunteer for medical studies. Global pharmaceutical company GSK and a state medical association supported the bill at a hearing last week (see 2501240034). Sen. Daniel Zolnikov (R), who previously authored the genetic privacy bill and Montana’s comprehensive privacy law, sponsored SB-163.
“I am excited that Montana is working to set the bar and be ahead of the curve regarding new technologies and their privacy implications,” Zolnikov emailed us after the Senate voted. “Unlike reactive internet consumer privacy bills that were passed into law decades after the internet was created, the neural privacy legislation in Montana creates clear protections for consumers and sets the sideboards for today's and tomorrow's neural innovations, requiring them to take the consumer's rights into consideration.”