"Please respect our privacy......while we are violating yours!"
Posted on 01/08/2020 6:43:52 PM PST by lowbridge
State officials have reportedly been denying pieces of the recent Maine Examiner exposé showing how Janet Mills’ administration is paying a vendor to track the movements of Mainers when they drive, walk or ride a bike, but the group’s official meeting minutes from the two most recent meetings tell a different story.
As previously reported by Maine Examiner, video of the November 16th meeting of the Maine Climate Council’s Transportation Working Group showed Maine DOT officials urging members of the Maine Climate Council to request driver data acquired from a new state vendor.
The minutes from the meeting, posted online, show the data from one vendor that tracks smart phone users includes: origin, destination, turning movements, inferred trip purpose, AADT for roads (with limitations), trip speed, duration, length and demographic data on Maine drivers.
The minutes also show data from other tracking methods are also available from Maine DOT, including Bluetooth sensors, TomTom and Waze, Google’s GPS navigation app.
While the November meeting minutes confirm the facts around the state’s data collection put forward by Maine Examiner in the previous report, the December meeting brought changes to reduce the transparency of the group.
At the start of the “Welcome and Introductions” that kicked off the December Climate Council meeting, there was an announcement that the group will no longer be recording the meetings. That announcement was made just three days after Maine Examiner published the exposé on the Maine DOT offering members of the council the tracking data the state has been collecting since Governor Janet Mills entered the contract in April.
(Excerpt) Read more at maineexaminer.com ...
They want to monitor and control ALL movement.
Does Maine not have open meeting laws?
Most states REQUIRE recording and posting any meetings of government bodies.
In our area they are called “Sunshine Laws”.
I think the operative phrase is “stops recording meetings”. They are still open, they are just don’t record them on video. Don’t know if there is a requirement to record them.
“In our area they are called “Sunshine Laws”.”
Have you been in Maine? :)
"Please respect our privacy......while we are violating yours!"
Is the Climate Council an actual government body? It sounds more like a lobby group.
Great to see one newspaper doing its job and exposing local government secret attacks on liberty—instead of wasting time on Trump Derangement Syndrome and Global “Climate Change” propaganda.
They might as well be chasing unicorns, fairies and pixie dust for governmental policy.
What a bunch of ignorant bastards.
They want to tax it next. Watch it happen.
BUMP
It used to be that such people-who-track were known as stalkers. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Do not “enable location services” on your phone unless you really, really mean it (or need it).
That is the goal, to know how you move about the state and tax you by the mile ...
I live in Maine and this is the first I’ve heard of this story.
Can the great Maine Governor Paul LePage run again??
“Can the great Maine Governor Paul LePage run again?”
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YES! Paul LePage was elected governor in 2010 and re-elected in 2014.
In Maine, governors are term limited after their second term (if they have a second term).
They have to leave office after their second term, but they can run again four years after the end of their second term if they want to do so.
Paul LePage, who was the most conservative governor in the country, has established residency in Florida, but he and his wife return to Maine in the warm weather months.
LePage has said he wants to run again in 2022, and I hope he does just that! Janet Mills is a disaster.
[[This is frightening. The kind of thing I expect to hear going on in California]]
Yup- can’t beleive Maine went for that liberal- Not the state i used to know that’s for sure-
[[Can the great Maine Governor Paul LePage run again??]]
Yep- wish Maine would brign him back- bring back soem sanity-
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