We’re here at the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee to support LD 1278 - to end the Maine Information Analysis Center (MIAC)
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MIAC operates with little accountability and transparency, and yet it has enormous power to surveil and store information on private citizens. It poses a tremendous threat to our privacy and First Amendment rights.
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In a whistleblower lawsuit, a State Trooper alleges MIAC
illegally kept a registry of gun buyers
spied on camp counselors at the Seeds of Peace summer camp
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From the BlueLeaks hack, we found out that MIAC was surveilling racial justice activists from Portland to Presque Isle.
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The MIAC is exactly what watchdogs feared it was: a highly secretive threat to fundamental constitutional rights. Terminating it would preserve our constitutional rights.
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