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On the recordJanuary 13, 2014
Our judgment about the government holding the data is that the primary danger of the 215 telephony metadata program is not if it is used only in the way in which its use is authorized, but that it leaves sitting out there a huge amount of information, personal information about Americans that could be abused in awful ways.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley expresses concern over the risks of government data collection.

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