The Commonwealth of Massachusetts recently extended the date for compliance with the newly issued regulations, entitled Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth, 201 CMR 17:00, to January 1, 2010.[1] The regulations have been extended yet again now the regulations are slated to take effect on March 1, 2010.
Undersecretary Barbara Anthony, of the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, announced revisions to Massachusetts’ data security regulations, as well as an extension of the applicable compliance deadline. (Previous to an earlier extension, the compliance deadline was May 1, 2009, which was change to January 1, 2010, and then again changed to March 2010.) [...]
