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Ed Markey: “If that information is not considered to be sensitive, then all of us have every bit of information being gathered about…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
If that information is not considered to be sensitive, then all of us have every bit of information being gathered about us.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey warns against the normalization of data collection without sensitivity.

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