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Ed Markey: the telephone company can't sell that information, where you went, who you are.

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
the telephone company can't sell that information, where you went, who you are.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey compares broadband regulation to historical telephone privacy laws.

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