I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
AL FRANKENNational security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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