Policy & Regulation
Connecticut's neural data privacy law takes effect 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), which recognises neurological rights including mental and neural data privacy, took effect on signing on 18 May 2026. After 1 July, Colorado, California, Montana, Connecticut and Vermont will all have neural data law on the books. Of the four states that define neural data, Connecticut is the only one to limit the definition to the central nervous system.