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Ron Wyden: “More importantly, independent privacy and security oversight is not an optional expense to be cut when it becomes…”

On the recordAugust 1, 2026
More importantly, independent privacy and security oversight is not an optional expense to be cut when it becomes inconvenient.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Senator Wyden on the importance of privacy oversight.

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