Montana! Its legislature only meets once every other year, but this year it met and…
Privacy advocates, behold the Montana legislature and House Bill 603, a measure that requires the government to obtain a probable cause warrant before spying on you through your cell phone or laptop. HB 603 was signed into law this past spring, effectively making Montana the first state to have an anti-spy law long before anyone heard of Edward Snowden.
As the story notes, several other states are considering similar measures. One extremely large hitch: Montana’s law doesn’t attempt to restrict the federal government’s spying, because the state would end up in court if it tried such a thing—and would probably lose.
