On May 8, 2025, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed Senate Bill 297 (SB 297) into law, significantly revising the existing Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA). These amendments generally mirror requirements in...more
Montana’s amendments also remove the cure period for alleged violations beginning in October, provide prescriptive methods through which businesses have to provide consumers with targeted advertising opt out rights, and...more
On May 8, 2025, the governor of Montana signed into law SB 297, which amends the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA). The amendments become effective on October 1, 2025. Among other things, SB 297: • amends the...more
On Tuesday this week, Montana’s new consumer protections law took effect, joining many other states with similar consumer privacy rights legislation....more
2024 seems like it is flying by. For those keeping track of US state “comprehensive” privacy laws you know that October 1 – a week away – brings the effective date of the Montana privacy law. The “big sky” state will join...more
Montana’s legislature last year passed legislation, signed by the Governor, to ban the use of TikTok within the borders of the state, seeking to protect Montana consumers’ personal information and limit spying by the Chinese...more
On May 19, 2023, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed into law Senate Bill 384 ("Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act"), Montana's new state consumer privacy law, which will become effective October 1, 2024. Montana now joins...more
This year has so far proven to be quite active in terms of state privacy legislation. In 2022, California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut were the five states with consumer privacy laws on the books, all set to...more
On April 21, the Montana legislature unanimously passed the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA) (SB 384), joining several states with general consumer data privacy bills. The MCDPA most closely aligns with the...more