Corporate compliance, legal, and IT officers entered a brave new world last week, when Massachusetts’ strict new data privacy law finally went into effect.
The law, bureaucratically known as 201 CMR 17.00, took hold on March 1 after a year of delays to quell anxiety among corporations that the specific details of implementation were vague, impractical, and expensive. Those concerns don’t seem to have receded much in that time, but regardless, the nation’s newest and most far-reaching regulation to protect consumers’ privacy has now arrived.
