September 09, 2022
Industry groups representing internet service providers have dropped their legal challenge to Maine's landmark online privacy statute, leaving the law — one of the nation's strictest — in place after roughly two and half years of litigation.
July 07, 2020
Maine notched a significant victory Tuesday after a federal judge rejected internet service providers' bid to overturn the state's new landmark online privacy statute on First Amendment grounds and ruled that the law limiting the use of customers' personal data is not preempted by federal law.
June 10, 2020
Facing down four lawsuits — including two that reached the First Circuit — over new laws tightening the screws on the practices of cable and internet providers, the state of Maine finds itself embroiled in brawls over telecom issues ranging from customer billing to online privacy.
June 01, 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups filed an amicus brief Friday in defense of Maine's new online privacy law, as several telecom trade groups contend the law violates the First Amendment and seek to strike it down.
May 27, 2020
Maine's attorney general, fighting internet service providers' bid to overturn the state's new online privacy law on First Amendment grounds, told a federal court Wednesday the law passes constitutional muster and that it would be "premature" to grant the ISPs' request for judgment on the pleadings.
February 18, 2020
Several national trade groups representing internet service providers are suing state officials in Maine federal court over a consumer privacy law enacted in 2019, saying it ventures far afield of its stated goal of protecting users' sensitive data.