ACLU, EFF, CDT Support Maine ISP Privacy Law in Federal Court
Maine’s ISP privacy law “easily survives” First Amendment scrutiny because it’s “narrowly drawn to directly advance Maine’s substantial interests in protecting consumers’ privacy, freedom of expression, and security,” said the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Center for…
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Democracy and Technology. The privacy groups sought Thursday to file an amicus brief (in Pacer) supporting the state at the U.S. District Court of Maine. Broadband providers "are uniquely positioned to surveil us and collect this information” and “have a proven track record of privacy invasive practices, yet we have no choice but to rely on them for access to the Internet,” said ACLU, EFF and CDT. “And in much of the country, particularly in Maine, we have little, if any, choice among them.” Maine AG Aaron Frey (D) told the court Wednesday the state law isn’t federally preempted (see 2005270043).