privacy

Published
April 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.
Published
February 5, 2022

Another View: Google shouldn’t know where you are if you don’t want it to

A lawsuit alleges the tech giant made it ’nearly impossible’ for users to avoid sharing their location data.
Published
December 20, 2020

The Maine Millennial: America’s moral values out of whack

Puritanical sexual attitudes should not outweigh a commitment to economic justice.
Published
December 17, 2020

Another View: Facebook might pose dangers, but it isn’t a monopoly

Reining in the social media behemoth is a matter for Congress, not antitrust enforcers.
Published
December 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.
Published
August 9, 2020

Insight: Antitrust laws are no match for Big Tech

Century-old statutes can't cope with companies that maintain market dominance through harvesting data for free.
Published
August 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.
Published
July 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.
Published
July 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.
Published
June 26, 2020

Our View: Hearing on Maine fusion center fails to provide answers

The Legislature has no choice but to order an investigation into the secretive unit.