Montana’s New Genetic Privacy Law Caps Off Ten Years of Innovative State Privacy Protections

Over the last 10+ years, Montana has, with little fanfare or national attention, steadily pushed to protect its residents’ privacy interests through sensible laws that recognize the unique threats posed by new technologies. Now Montana has passed one of the nation’s most protective consumer genetic privacy laws—the Genetic Information Privacy Act. Could this law and the state’s bipartisan approach become a model for the rest of the country?  

2013 is a good starting point for this story. That year, …