Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine., has signed the Act to Protect the Privacy of Online Consumer Information into law, The Hill reports. The bill prohibits internet service providers from any sale of customer data without consent and will go into effect July 1, 2020. “With this common-sense law, Maine people can access the internet with the knowledge and comfort that their personal information cannot be bought or sold by their ISPs without their express approval,” Mills said in a statement. Former Federal Communications Commission Adviser Gigi Sohn praised the Maine law. “The bipartisan passage of Maine’s broadband privacy bill demonstrates that when legislators listen to their constituents rather than big corporations, the public wins,” Sohn said.
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