data privacy

This bill clarifies information needed to process a birth certificate request with additional, research-relevant questions.
This bill protects the personal information of Utahns collected by state agencies.
This bill creates a barrier to innovation by adding to the patchwork of contradictory state data privacy laws that will take effect in 2023.
The resolution argues that forcing banking institutions to make such a choice breaks down trust between consumers and financial institutions.
This entire situation does highlight the need for consumers to be aware of the risks they run with their data before deciding to entrust it to a third party as well as the need for robust guardrails for government agencies that want to access that data through the third party.
Montana’s Frontier Institute proved instrumental in ushering both of these bills through their state legislature. As a result of Frontier’s hard work, Montana joins a handful of other states extending privacy protections to digital data and communications.

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