Massachusetts - Protecting Personal Information
Massachusetts has some of the nation’s most rigorous data protection laws.
- E.g., 2007 breach notification law
- required the state’s consumer affairs department to issue standards for the protection of personal information:
- Protect the security and confidentiality of personal information consistent with industry standards
- Protect against anticipated threats to the security or integrity of personal information
- Protect against unauthorized access to or use of personal information that could harm a person
- required the state’s consumer affairs department to issue standards for the protection of personal information:
- Massachusetts Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth (2010)