Philip M. Duclos of Jackson Lewis writes: Montana recently amended its privacy law through Senate Bill 297, effective October 1, 2025, strengthening consumer protections and requiring businesses to revisit their privacy policies that apply to citizens of Montana. Importantly, it lowered the threshold for applicability to persons and businesses who control or process the personal data of 25,000 or…
UK Passes Data Use and Access Regulation Bill
Akshaya Asokan reports: Data privacy legislation modifying European data protection law the United Kingdom adopted before leaving the trading bloc in 2020 is now the only law in the country to leave the European Union. The Data Use and Access Bill gained royal assent Thursday after multiple years of consideration in Parliament under different guises, but always…
Officials defend Liberal bill that would force hospitals, banks, hotels to hand over data
Maybe they should change their name and not call themselves “Liberal” anymore? Catharine Tunney reports from Canada: The Liberal government’s proposed border bill would empower police and the country’s spy agency to seek information from a wide range of service providers — including medical professionals, banks and car rental companies — without a warrant, government…
US Judge Invalidates Biden Rule Protecting Privacy for Abortions
Daniel Wiessner reports: A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a rule adopted by the administration of former President Joe Biden that strengthened privacy protections for women seeking abortions and patients who receive gender transition treatments. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services exceeded its…