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Mississippi
Insurance Data Security Law, nonpublic information including biometric records
Miss. Code Ann. §§ 83-5-801 to 83-5-825, SB 2831 § 3(k)
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In force since 1 July 2019.
A sensitive categories rule binding private bodies.
As of 28 August 2026.
What it requires
- If you are a Mississippi insurance licensee, treat a biometric record as nonpublic information requiring this law's data-security safeguards, alongside a Social Security number, driver's license number, or financial account number.
What this law does
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Mississippi adopted the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law as SB 2831 (2019 Regular Session), signed April 3, 2019 and effective July 1, 2019, codified at Miss. Code Ann. Sections 83-5-801 to 83-5-825.
Nonpublic information (Section 3(k)) includes electronic information that is not publicly available and that, combined with an identifying element, includes a Social Security number, driver's license or nondriver identification card number, financial account or card number, a financial-account access credential, or biometric records.
Biometric records is a bare, undefined term with no elaboration anywhere in Section 3's definitions and no photograph, video, or audio-recording exclusion or clawback clause, the same shape found in Michigan's parallel adoption of the same model law, so whether it excludes a recording-derived identifier cannot be tested against this text and is not recorded. This law binds insurance licensees only, not a general private-sector actor.
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