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Dear Steve Jobs: Al Franken Has 9 Questions For You About Location Tracking...
Senator Al Franken is alarmed about the recent revelations that the iPhone tracks the location of users and stores that data in an unencrypted file on the phone.Yesterday, Franken sent a letter to...
View ArticleAl Franken Gives Carrier IQ A December 14 Deadline To Answer For Privacy...
Sen. Al Franken sent the CEO of Carrier IQ, Larry Lenhart, a letter this morning asking for more details on how the service works and what kind of information it can get from users' smartphones.In the...
View ArticleAl Franken Broke Down And Wept Today When Discussing The Violence Against...
Here's Sen. Al Franken today, breaking down and crying while discussing the Violence Against Women Act on the Senate floor. (Via The Huffington Post) He choked up when talking about the legacy of the...
View ArticleBarney Frank In Bed With Arianna Huffington And Al Franken [VIDEO]
When Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank retires from Congress this month, the House of Representatives loses its first openly gay member and one of Washington's fiercest defenders of same-sex...
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The 12 Best Tweeters In Congress
Twitter has given members of Congress a direct line of communication to fans and constituents. For the most part, the Twitter streams for members of Congress are uninteresting, delegated to an intern...
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The NSA Scandal Has Brought Bipartisanship Back To Washington
Imagine this: Some of the most prominent conservative and liberal members of the Senate getting together to advance a bill challenging establishment positions on privacy. It sounds unthinkable,...
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SENATOR: Net Neutrality Is The 'Free Speech Issue Of Our Time'
Net neutrality is “the free speech issue of our time,” Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., says in a YouTube video released Tuesday, and the FCC's proposed rules for Internet service providers threaten a "free...
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Why Senator Al Franken Wants To Make 'Stalking' Apps Illegal
If you wanted to be alerted to someone else's movements by secretly tracking the location of their smartphone, there's an app for that. Actually, there are many apps. And Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.)...
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And Now A Senator Has Some Uncomfortable Questions For Uber
Senator Al Franken (D), chairman of the subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, has issued a letter on Wednesday requesting Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to address issues surrounding the taxi...
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Sen. Al Franken Blasts Uber For Tiptoeing Around His Questions About The...
Last month, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, voiced privacy concerns about Uber in an open letter to the company.In it, he asked that Uber...
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Al Franken goes after Uber again, and he's pressing for better answers about...
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), chairman of the subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, issued a letter to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on Tuesday calling for the company to provide better answers...
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Elizabeth Warren is going after private equity's golden goose (KKR, BX)
A prominent group of US Senate Democrats, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, is targeting private equity's golden goose.Sens. Al Franken (D-Minnesota), Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode...
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John McCain and Al Franken face off in funny mock-NFL debate
Senators John McCain and Al Franken set actual politics aside for a few minutes to participate in a sketch "debate" over their home-state football teams as the lead-in for the NFL's Thursday Night...
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Facebook's VR headset is collecting a lot of personal data and people are...
Facebook's long-anticipated virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift, is finally available. It costs $600, requires a powerful computer to run, and is sold out for months due to demand. You get much...
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A US senator is demanding answers about how 'Pokémon Go' is collecting...
A US senator wants some answers about "Pokémon Go." Specifically, what data it is harvesting from its players.Senator Al Franken has written to Niantic, the company behind the wildly popular smartphone...
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'You're being ridiculous': Sarah Silverman sends message to 'Bernie or bust'...
Comedian and Bernie Sanders supporter Sarah Silverman had a message for the "Bernie or bust" proponents chanting her down for endorsing Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in...
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The team behind Pokémon Go assures US senator that the game isn't violating...
Remember when people were worried that Pokémon Go was stealing their Google information? It happened way back in July, soon after the game launched in North America. We were so young!Things got so...
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Trump's education secretary appeared to get stumped on a key question during...
Betsy DeVos, the choice of President-elect Donald Trump to lead the US Department of Education, sparred with some lawmakers during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday.At one point, DeVos appeared to...
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'May I rephrase that?': Rick Perry gives Al Franken awkwardly suggestive...
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry gave Sen. Al Franken an awkwardly suggestive compliment during the his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Energy.After Franken thanked Perry for meeting him in...
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Tensions boil over in Sessions hearing as Al Franken unloads on Ted Cruz and...
Sen. Al Franken on Wednesday erupted during a Senate hearing considering the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.Franken, the Democratic senator from Minnesota, attacked Sessions...
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