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On the recordJanuary 13, 2014
And is it the judgment of the commission that if the data were kept in private hands of the phone companies that already possess the data legally, that that would do nothing to undermine the efficacy of the program preventing potentially future attacks?
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas

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Cruz questions if private data handling affects the program's effectiveness in preventing attacks.

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