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Jay Rockefeller: Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

On the recordDecember 17, 2013
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Rockefeller critiques the ethics of data brokers' practices.

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