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Richard Blumenthal

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Richard Blumenthal is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Connecticut since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, Blumenthal has focused on issues such as consumer protection, healthcare, and veterans' affairs during his tenure. He previously served as the Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011, where he gained recognition for his advocacy on behalf of consumers and his efforts to hold corporations accountable. Blumenthal has been an active voice in the Senate, participating in various committees and addressing key national issues.

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Jun 19, 2018

I would like your commitment that you will impose civil penalties in these areas and others.

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Jun 18, 2018

This must stop, and it must stop now.

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Jun 18, 2018

Facebook is NOT a government. If it is, I don't want to be a 'citizen.'

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Jun 18, 2018

I have been frustrated by Facebook's apparent reluctance to be more transparent to the American public about what it knows, where it acquires information, and what it uses it for.

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Jun 18, 2018

I'm not advocating that we follow the GDPR simply because it's there. If we can improve on it, so much the better.

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Jun 18, 2018

There's no question that Facebook's model is immensely powerful and unchecked right now.

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Jun 18, 2018

The only question now is what should be done about it.

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Jun 18, 2018

There may be grave consumer harms, not only in privacy, but, as you suggest, in monopolistic practices that antitrust law is designed to prevent.

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Jun 18, 2018

For Facebook, consumers are the product, so to speak. Their information is monetized.

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Jun 18, 2018

Mr. Zuckerberg is failing to truly understand what a government truly is.

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Jun 18, 2018

One of our challenges is to reveal it fully and the way that it is using private confidential information--in fact, monetizing it--for its own self-purposes.

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Jun 18, 2018

I am interested in putting into place rules of the road for online privacy.

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Jun 18, 2018

Mr. Chairman, I take umbrage at that.

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Jun 18, 2018

If indeed Facebook wishes to become a nation state, then first it must decide what kind of nation state it wishes to be.

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Jun 18, 2018

One of the central challenges of our time is becoming the potential threats posed by the Internet, such as data brokers, terrorist recruitment, Russia's continued interference in our elections.

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Jun 18, 2018

Consumer information is the new class of currency. In effect, we are the currency.

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Jun 18, 2018

I happen to believe that those sorts of standards are the minimum that we should be adopting.

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Jun 18, 2018

A privacy bill of rights is a term, and we need to make it real in ways that are enforceable and, really, protective of consumers without unintended consequences.

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Jun 18, 2018

Americans deserve no less privacy than European.

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Jun 18, 2018

Facebook, for years, was the best friend that data brokers could have.

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Jun 18, 2018

I will be introducing a bill that will, in effect, provide a privacy bill of rights.

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Jun 18, 2018

I'm concerned that the Federal agencies with a role... are not doing enough to protect our privacy and our democracy.

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Jun 18, 2018

The American public trusted Facebook with personal and intimate information, and it broke its trust.

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Jun 18, 2018

There's no question that Facebook knew about those terms of service.

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