Policy & Regulation
Connecticut and Vermont activate neural data privacy laws on 1 July, taking the US count to five states
Connecticut's Public Act 25-113 (SB 1295), signed by Governor Ned Lamont on 25 June 2025, takes effect on 1 July 2026 and adds 'any information that is generated by measuring the activity of an individual's central nervous system' to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act's sensitive-data category. Vermont's Act 101 (H.814), signed 18 May 2026, takes effect the same day. After 1 July, Colorado, California, Montana, Connecticut and Vermont will all have active neural data privacy law on the books. Connecticut's definition is the narrowest of the five.