EOTSS Legal and Privacy Office

This team provides counsel to EOTSS executive and senior leadership, the governor’s legal office, and other secretariats and agencies on technology-related matters.

Overview

The General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer oversees the EOTSS legal team, the e-discovery team, and the agency's privacy program. The legal team provides comprehensive legal advice and guidance to EOTSS’s executive and senior leadership on a wide range of legal matters affecting the office, including data privacy, public records, access issues, litigation and settlements, policy development, and matters involving emerging technologies.    

While the legal team does not provide legal representation to outside agencies, we do offer general guidance on technology-related matters including privacy, e-discovery, nondisclosure agreements, and information governance, as appropriate.

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General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer

• E-discovery
• Legal
• Privacy 

E-discovery

The e-discovery team provides essential e-discovery discovery services internally to EOTSS and as a service provider to executive branch and independent agencies.

Privacy

The privacy program focuses on the statutory mandate to “promote privacy and security in the use and dissemination of sensitive data, and to [facilitate] resolution of concerns regarding privacy and security in the use of data” (M.G.L. c. 7D, s. 4B). The privacy program works closely with the EOTSS legal, risk, data, security, digital, and contract management teams.

Artificial Intelligence

The Enterprise Use and Development of Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy establishes minimum requirements for the procurement, development, and use of generative AI by Executive Department Agencies. The goal of this policy is to ensure that Executive Department Agencies are procuring and using AI Systems responsibly and that AI systems meet legal, ethical, security, and privacy best practices.