Massachusetts Ingestion: Privacy and Excluded-Field Specification
Generated pages from Massachusetts official data publish only fields on the explicit allowlists below. The machine-readable specification is committed at data/massachusetts-ccc/privacy-spec.md and enforced by an automated scan of generated Markdown.
Excluded Fields and Values
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| EIN / TIN | EIN_TIN, FEIN |
| Personal addresses | business/mailing street addresses, full addresses |
| Mailing addresses unrelated to licensed premises | MAILING_ADDRESS_* |
| Individual agent records | agent names, emails, identifiers |
| Personal names | agent names; only official public roles published |
| Email addresses | BUSINESS_EMAIL |
| Phone numbers | BUSINESS_PHONE |
| Internal application notes | application notes, review priority details |
| Unnecessary ownership details | fee-waiver numbers, SE account numbers |
| Raw coordinates | LATITUDE, LONGITUDE |
| Fields present merely because they exist in source JSON | all non-allowlisted source fields |
Entity Allowlists
affected_product: package_label, packaged_date, tested_on_date, source_product_text, source_product_identifier, commercial_product_label, package_size_text, product_form, cultivar_candidate_text, sold_between, advisory_date, advisory_source
contaminant: name, source_name, unit, matrix, appears_in, advisories, notes
dataset: title, slug, official_source_url, json_url, format, reporting_period, source_last_updated, retrieval_date, row_count, columns, disclaimer, clarification
license: legal_name, license_number, license_type, program, status, commence_ops, municipality, county, cultivation_environment, cultivation_tier, license_start_date, license_expiration_date
organization: legal_name, license_numbers, license_types, program, municipality
requirement: title, citation, regulator, official_source_url, notes
safety_advisory: title, advisory_date, canonical_url, concern, consumer_instructions, date_ranges, affected_product_count, product_category_summary, testing_date_range, packaged_date_range, sale_date_range, revision_status
testing_laboratory: legal_name, license_number, license_type, program, status, commence_ops, municipality, related_jurisdiction, related_requirements, related_safety_advisories