Duty LXD-6682
Distributes a software product, in Montana
Technology access clause in information technology contracts of state agenciessince 2 lines
Mont. Code Ann. § 18-5-604 · Read the law's page
- If you sell information technology to a Montana state agency, expect the contract to include the technology access clause, which requires compliance with the nonvisual access standards the state develops, and the nondiscrimination language required by section 49-3-207 (section 18-5-604(1)).
- Make the technology meet the nonvisual access standards, which must include these minimum specifications: effective, interactive control and use of the technology, including the operating system, applications programs and format of the data presented, readily adaptable to nonvisual means; compatibility with the information technology other individuals use to exchange electronic information with a blind or visually impaired individual; integration into networks used to share communications among employees, program participants and the public; and equivalent access by nonvisual means to telecommunications or other interconnected network services (section 18-5-604(2)).
Impediment of Identity Theft, record destruction dutysince 2 lines
Mont. Code Ann. § 30-14-1703 · Read the law's page
- This binds any business holding a customer's records containing personal information within its custody or control, a business being any sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, or other group, whether or not organized to operate at a profit, including an entity that destroys records, but not an industry regulated under Title 33 of the Montana Code.
- Take all reasonable steps to destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, a customer's records containing personal information once they are no longer necessary to be retained, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or undecipherable.