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Richard Blumenthal: “Cambridge Analytica should never have happened. It would never have happened if the consent order reached by the FTC…”

On the recordNovember 26, 2018
Cambridge Analytica should never have happened. It would never have happened if the consent order reached by the FTC with Facebook had been vigorously and adequately enforced.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal points out failures in FTC enforcement related to Facebook.

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