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Montana is on the verge of enacting the strongest brain privacy law in the nation. Senate Bill 163 — which has now passed both chambers of the state legislature — expands Montana’s Genetic Information Privacy Act to include protections for neurotechnology data. That means your brainwaves, mental states, nervous system signals, and cognitive patterns — […]

In a landmark civil rights lawsuit, plaintiffs Lee Schmidt and Crystal Arrington, with the backing of the Institute for Justice (IJ), are suing the City of Norfolk, the Norfolk Police Department, and Police Chief Mark Talbot in Schmidt, et al. v. City of Norfolk, et al. The plaintiffs argue that the city’s use of 172