{"id":220225,"date":"2026-03-05T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/maine-business-groups-take-aim-at-data-privacy-bill-headed-to-state-senate\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:40:10","slug":"maine-business-groups-take-aim-at-data-privacy-bill-headed-to-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/maine-business-groups-take-aim-at-data-privacy-bill-headed-to-state-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine business groups take aim at data privacy bill headed to state Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainebiz.biz\/article\/maine-business-groups-take-aim-at-data-privacy-bill-headed-to-state-senate\/\">Maine business groups take aim at data privacy bill headed to state Senate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainebiz.biz\/article\/maine-business-groups-take-aim-at-data-privacy-bill-headed-to-state-senate\/\">https:\/\/mainebiz.biz\/article\/maine-business-groups-take-aim-at-data-privacy-bill-headed-to-state-senate\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-05 10:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"mainebiz.biz\">mainebiz.biz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If passed, the bill would limit businesses\u2019 ability to use third-party data and location-based advertising to reach customers, requiring additional consent to do so.<\/p>\n<p>A data privacy bill headed for a vote in the Maine Senate is getting pushback from businesses and trade groups who argue that the measure would create headaches for small companies.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, introduced in 2025 by\u00a0state Rep. Amy Kuhn, D-Falmouth, would\u00a0sharply restrict the ability to use third-party data and location-based advertising to reach customers, requiring additional consent to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters include the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, which argues that the measure would provide \u201cmeaningful protections\u201d against \u201cgrave threats to democracy and personal autonomy\u201d posed by surveillance, according to written testimony by the organization&#8217;s policy director, Michael Kebede.<\/p>\n<p>GLAD Law, a Boston-based nonprofit advocacy group, also supports the bill, calling it a \u201cmajor step forward in protecting the digital privacy of all Mainers.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Chambers speak out<\/h2>\n<p>Both the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce oppose the bill, LD 1822, which the Maine House of Representatives passed in February by a vote of 73-65.<\/p>\n<p>A Senate vote has not yet been scheduled but is expected to take place next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaine businesses are facing rising costs \u2014 energy, rent, insurance and labor,\u201d the Maine State Chamber said in an email alert to members this week. \u201cDigital marketing tools are one of the few cost-effective ways small businesses reach new customers and stay competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Augusta-based group also said that while it supports protecting sensitive data, LD 1822 \u201coverreaches and would disadvantage Maine employers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along similar lines, the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce urged its members to press state senators to vote against the \u201csweeping and restrictive data privacy bill that would make Maine a national outlier and&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mainebiz.biz\/article\/maine-business-groups-take-aim-at-data-privacy-bill-headed-to-state-senate\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine business groups take aim at data privacy bill headed to state Senate https:\/\/mainebiz.biz\/article\/maine-business-groups-take-aim-at-data-privacy-bill-headed-to-state-senate\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.mainebiz.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Slugger_State-House_2-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220227,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220225\/revisions\/220227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}