Law / United States / 
Massachusetts
Video rental records: limits on keeping and disclosing borrower records
In force.
A sensitive categories rule binding private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Retention, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
As of .
What it requires
- If you are in the business of leasing or renting videos, or an employee of one, keep no record that would indicate the title or category of a video a borrower leased or rented, other than the records necessary to ensure a completed transaction.
- Eliminate records that indicate the name of the borrower together with the title or category of the video within thirty days after the transaction is completed.
- Do not make available to a third party records that would indicate the name of the borrower or the title or category of a video leased or rented, except under a proceeding authorized by 18 USC 2710(b)(2)(C) and (F).
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Criminal exposure note
Section 106(3): a violation is punishable by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than sixty days or a fine of one thousand dollars, or both.
What this law does
Section 106 of chapter 93 bars a person engaged in the business of leasing or renting videos, or an employee of one, from maintaining records that would indicate the title or category of any video leased or rented by a borrower, other than the records necessary to ensure a completed transaction. Section 106 of chapter 93 requires records indicating the name of the borrower together with the title or category of the video to be eliminated within thirty days after the transaction is completed.
Section 106 of chapter 93 bars a person engaged in the business of leasing or renting videos, or an employee of one, from making available to a third party records that would indicate the name of the borrower or the title or category of any video leased or rented by a borrower, except under a proceeding authorized by federal law.
Section 106 of chapter 93 punishes a violation of that section by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than sixty days or a fine of one thousand dollars, or both.
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