by Christopher Clark, President — Fiberlink

On March 1st, 2010, the state of Massachusetts raised the bar for companies and their IT organizations by implementing tough legislation that requires new protections for customer data. Any organization that has customers located in Massachusetts will have to abide by 201 CMR 17.00: Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth, aka, the Mass Data Protection Law. This regulation applies to all organizations "who own, license, store or maintain personal information about a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."