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PublishedOctober 17, 2023
Mainers need a law to protect their digital privacy, advocates say, but businesses object
A legislative committee held a public hearing Tuesday on proposals to restrict the consumer information that technology companies can collect and sell.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2023
Maine Voices: ‘Privacy is power,’ and we all deserve to have it back
Mainers need their state legislators to give support to strong privacy bills that will guarantee that their personal information is protected by the law.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2022
Data privacy and abortion limits set to collide post-Roe
Privacy advocates sounded alarms that women should be vigilant in the types of data and content they share with fertility and health apps and through social media.
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PublishedJune 24, 2022
After Roe ruling, Democrats seek probe of tech companies’ use of personal data
Privacy experts say the ruling could make women vulnerable because their personal data could be used to surveil pregnancies and be shared with police or sold to vigilantes.
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PublishedApril 7, 2022
Maine Voices: Stop saying small-business owners oppose Maine biometric privacy bill
It’s in the interest of Big Tech to defeat L.D. 1945, which would create guardrails on how companies can use our personal identifiers – our fingerprints, faces and voices.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2020
Our View: Facebook’s free service comes at a high cost
Antitrust lawsuits filed last week detail how the platform’s monopolistic power harms its users.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2020
Enforcement of Maine’s strict online privacy law begins without clear strategy
The state's attorney general said most internet service providers affirm they are complying, but a group of large providers is fighting the law in court.
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PublishedJuly 26, 2020
The View From Here: Post-9/11 policing is being used on us
From a federal crackdown in Oregon to a secretive police intelligence unit in Maine, we are seeing counterterrorism tactics turned on the public.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2020
Our View: Maine’s internet privacy law survives legal challenge
A federal judge dismissed most of a lawsuit against the state, filed by internet service providers who want to sell customers’ personal information.
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PublishedMay 29, 2020
Maine Voices: Maine fusion center suit shows it’s time to confront mass surveillance
Government and big corporations are crunching our data and sorting us into different categories for their purposes.
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