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Ed Markey: We've gone from an era of privacy keepers to privacy and information reapers, just gathering up all the information…

On the recordSeptember 17, 2013
We've gone from an era of privacy keepers to privacy and information reapers, just gathering up all the information possible.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the shift in privacy dynamics due to data brokers' influence.

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