{"id":222062,"date":"2026-03-10T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/mills-skeptical-of-data-privacy-bill-opposed-by-businesses\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:30:12","slug":"mills-skeptical-of-data-privacy-bill-opposed-by-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/mills-skeptical-of-data-privacy-bill-opposed-by-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills skeptical of data privacy bill opposed by businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/03\/10\/gov-mills-skeptical-of-new-data-privacy-measure-opposed-by-businesses\/\">Mills skeptical of data privacy bill opposed by businesses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/03\/10\/gov-mills-skeptical-of-new-data-privacy-measure-opposed-by-businesses\/\">https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/03\/10\/gov-mills-skeptical-of-new-data-privacy-measure-opposed-by-businesses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 15:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pressherald.com\">www.pressherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGov. Janet Mills poses for a photo with Michelle Littlefield, the co-owner of Third Space Market in Gorham, on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. Littlefield was wearing a shirt referencing what Gov. Mills said to President Trump in a video that went viral early last year. (Brianna Soukup\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-image-caption=&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Janet Mills poses for a photo with Michelle Littlefield, the co-owner of Third Space Market in Gorham, on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. Littlefield was wearing a shirt referencing what Gov. Mills said to President Trump in a video that went viral early last year. (Brianna Soukup\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-medium-file=&#8221;https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/43432799_20260211_Mills_03.jpg?w=300&#8243; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/43432799_20260211_Mills_03.jpg?w=780&#8243;\/\t\t\t<span>Gov. Janet Mills poses for a photo with Michelle Littlefield, the co-owner of Third Space Market in Gorham, on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. Littlefield was wearing a shirt referencing what Gov. Mills said to President Trump in a video that went viral early last year. (Brianna Soukup\/Staff Photographer)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Janet Mills said Tuesday that she\u2019s skeptical about a strict data privacy bill being debated in the state Legislature that has been met with fierce opposition from the state\u2019s business community.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after tapping a maple tree on the Blaine House lawn on a warm, spring-like day, Mills said she was concerned about a recent amendment added by state senators exempting political groups from the rules being proposed for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t excited about it,\u201d Mills said. \u201cIt reflects a problem in the bill itself. If the fix is good enough for the political bodies, then the fix ought to be good enough for the businesses affected as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills stopped short of threatening to veto the bill, which is opposed by the Maine State Chamber of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/03\/10\/gov-mills-skeptical-of-new-data-privacy-measure-opposed-by-businesses\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mills skeptical of data privacy bill opposed by businesses https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/03\/10\/gov-mills-skeptical-of-new-data-privacy-measure-opposed-by-businesses\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-10 15:01:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/43432799_20260211_Mills_03.jpg?w=780","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222062","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\/222062"}],"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=222062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222064,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222062\/revisions\/222064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}