{"id":228726,"date":"2026-03-28T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/business-groups-warn-maine-data-privacy-proposal-could-raise-marketing-costs-hurt-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:05:18","slug":"business-groups-warn-maine-data-privacy-proposal-could-raise-marketing-costs-hurt-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/business-groups-warn-maine-data-privacy-proposal-could-raise-marketing-costs-hurt-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Business groups warn Maine data privacy proposal could raise marketing costs, hurt growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/business-groups-warn-maine-data-privacy-proposal-could-raise-marketing-costs-hurt-growth\">Business groups warn Maine data privacy proposal could raise marketing costs, hurt growth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/business-groups-warn-maine-data-privacy-proposal-could-raise-marketing-costs-hurt-growth\">https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/business-groups-warn-maine-data-privacy-proposal-could-raise-marketing-costs-hurt-growth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-28 19:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wgme.com\">wgme.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUGUSTA, Maine (WGME) &#8212; The Maine State Chamber of Commerce is urging CEOs and senior executives across the state to join its opposition to the proposed Maine Online Data Privacy Act.<\/p>\n<p>Along with several other business groups, the chamber is organizing a letter from Maine business leaders opposing a data privacy bill.<\/p>\n<p>They argue the bill could disrupt how businesses operate, market, and compete.<\/p>\n<p>The chamber also says limiting access to consumer data used in digital marketing could drive up costs and make it harder for Maine businesses to reach customers and grow.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine state senate is expected to vote on the proposal Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/business-groups-warn-maine-data-privacy-proposal-could-raise-marketing-costs-hurt-growth\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business groups warn Maine data privacy proposal could raise marketing costs, hurt growth https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/business-groups-warn-maine-data-privacy-proposal-could-raise-marketing-costs-hurt-growth Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wgme.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/1280\/1320\/center\/90\/88d925e9-baac-4a05-8c30-d0576add8d8e-PPUSHFORWEALTHTAXCBS_frame_3738.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228726","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\/228726"}],"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=228726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228728,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228726\/revisions\/228728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}