A bill to prohibit internet service providers that receive state subsidies from selling a customer’s data without notice or consent has reached an impasse in the Maine state legislature, the Press Herald reports. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Shenna Bellows, D-Manchester, said, “ISPs have access to everything you view or communicate on the internet,” adding, “Whether it’s private emails or the websites you are doing research on for a private medical condition, when the feds allowed the ISPs to harvest, sell or share this data, just like Facebook currently does, that opened up a whole new dangerous world that invades personally (sic) privacy.” Those who opposed the bill argue that internet privacy falls outside a state’s jurisdiction and should be regulated by the federal government.
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