Insight: Antitrust laws are no match for Big Tech

privacy

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.
Published
May 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.
Published
May 28, 2020

ACLU steps in to support Maine’s online privacy law

Internet industry groups filed a lawsuit challenging the law, which takes effect in July and is seen as one of the strictest in the country.
Published
May 20, 2020

Our View: Oversight of Maine State Police ‘fusion center’ way overdue

A longtime trooper's allegations regarding a secretive state police intelligence unit demand answers.
Published
March 8, 2020

Our View: Transparency, oversight necessary for police use of high-tech surveillance

In Maine, police say they don't even have to tell us whether they are using facial recognition, much less how they guard against misuse.
Published
February 19, 2020

Internet service providers sue Maine over privacy law

The law, which passed last year and is set to take effect in July, requires companies to get opt-in consent from customers before their data can be shared.