Montana legislators mulled two privacy bills from the author of the state’s 2023 comprehensive law during hearings Thursday. At one livestreamed session, Montana Sen. Daniel Zolnikov (R) urged the Senate Energy and Telecom Committee to clear a fix of another data bill from that year, the Genetic Information Privacy Act. Later, during an Education Committee hearing, the state senator urged support for a bill that gives students “the right to be forgotten.”
Pursuing data security claims against companies was "top-of-mind" for state attorneys general in 2024 and this will probably continue through the year, Morrison Foerster partners Linda Clark and Kathryn Taylor blogged Friday.
Biometric and genetic privacy bills emerged in Hawaii and Montana on Wednesday.