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Montana committee advances privacy bill tightening protections for minors and clarifying exemptions
Summary
Senate Bill 297, an update to Montana's consumer privacy law that tightens protections for minors and refines financial-exemption language, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee as amended; sponsor said the bill builds on last session's bipartisan privacy law and adds data protection assessment requirements for higher-risk processing of minors' data.
Senate Bill 297, a follow-up to Montana's consumer-privacy framework enacted last session, advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after the panel approved an amendment and then the bill as amended.
The sponsor (unnamed in the hearing record) said SB 297 narrows exemptions for financial institutions, expands the definition of sensitive personal data to include Social Security numbers, driver's license and financial-account numbers, passwords and biometric identifiers, and strengthens requirements for handling minors' data. The sponsor…
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