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John Kerry: To what degree is it true that right now, absent some kind of promise to the contrary, any kind of company or a mobile…

On the recordMay 18, 2011
To what degree is it true that right now, absent some kind of promise to the contrary, any kind of company or a mobile phone or an app operator, hotel, website, whatever it is, that they can do whatever they want with the personal information that they have collected, and the individual would have no right whatsoever to tell them to stop or to control what they are doing with the information?
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John Kerry
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Kerry questions the lack of consumer control over personal information by companies.

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