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Senate advances tightened consumer privacy bill, lowering thresholds and expanding protections for minors
Summary
Senate Bill 297, a revision of Montana’s consumer privacy law, was reported do pass after the sponsor described expanded protections for young consumers and tightened exemptions for entities claiming exemption as financial institutions; the committee recorded the bill as passed in committee.
Senator D. Zolnikoff presented Senate Bill 297 as a tightening of Montana's existing consumer privacy law. The sponsor said the measure clarifies exemptions, extends protections for minors, and lowers the threshold for covered entities from 50,000 to 25,000 consumers (with different thresholds for entities that derive a portion of revenue from data sales).
"So this is a tightening of that bill because there are a few exemptions. Pretty…
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