The Massachusetts Information Privacy and Security Act (MIPSA) continues to advance through the state legislative process, and is now before the full legislature. While the Act has several hurdles to clear before becoming law, its notable for two reasons. First, the comprehensive nature of the MIPSA exemplifies the direction state data protection laws are heading in the absence of a comprehensive federal consumer data protection law. Second, given the borderless nature of e-commerce, the most robust state consumer data protection law will likely become the de facto national consumer data protection law, and the MIPSA may take that title. This post highlights significant portions of the current version of the Act.
