In one paragraph
Massachusetts S 33 would create a comprehensive consumer data privacy act. After a joint committee hearing on April 9, 2025, the committee folded it into new draft S2516 on May 12, 2025, so S33 itself does not move further. The successor, redrafted as S2608 and passed by the Senate 40-0 on September 25, 2025 as S2619, would let consumers opt out of profiling for solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. The House passed different text on June 4, 2026 and a conference committee was appointed in June 2026; nothing is law.
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What it means for business
None yet: the bill has not been enacted. If a final act resembles the Senate text, larger data-handling businesses would owe privacy rights, opt-outs from automated profiling and assessments.
Key provisions
- Senate version (S2619): applies to persons that processed data of 60,000+ consumers, or 20,000+ consumers with 20% of gross revenue from data sales, or handled reproductive or sexual health data
- Would let consumers opt out of profiling for solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects; for any profiling-based decision with such effects, consumers could question the result, learn the reason and have inaccurate data corrected
- Controllers would have to run data protection assessments for profiling that risks unfair treatment, disparate impact or other substantial injury
- Attorney general would have exclusive enforcement under chapter 93A, with civil penalties up to $5,000 per violation and a 60-day cure notice (cure repealed June 1, 2027)
- Senate version would take effect January 1, 2027, with section 2 (repeal of the cure period) on June 1, 2027
- Bill history: S2516 reported May 12, 2025; S2619 passed Senate September 25, 2025; House passed amended text June 4, 2026; Senate non-concurred June 11, 2026; conference committee appointed
Latest legislative action
May 12, 2025. Accompanied a new draft, see S2516
Sponsors (showing 5 of 21)
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Julian Cyr D | Primary |
| Nick Collins D | Primary |
| Sal N. DiDomenico D | Primary |
| William J. Driscoll, Jr. | Primary |
| Barbara A. L'Italien | Cosponsor |
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