Who?
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) — Chair, Senate Commerce Committee
LISTEN: Laslo & Cantwell
Ask a Pol asks:
With the FISA reauthorization and the dustup over the FBI — or whatever — getting our private data and tracking Americans, do you think your measure would address that?
Key Cantwell:
“Well, it does,” Sen. Maria Cantwell exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “It says you cannot resell sensitive* data without American’s consent.”
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*Our lingering question:
What counts as ‘sensitive data’? If the future is like the distant and recent past, we’re watching to see how the FBI adopts a different working definition than many lawmakers intended…
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Maria Cantwell
Matt Laslo: “You again. With the FISA reauthorization and the dustup over the FBI — or whatever — getting our private data and tracking Americans, do you think your measure would address that?”
Maria Cantwell: “Well, it does. It says you cannot resell sensitive data without American’s consent.”
Cantwell and her aide are rushing to catch an elevator ahead of the Prime Minister of Japan’s address to a joint session of Congress Thursday, April 11, 2024.
MC: “We need to go.”
ML: “Yeah?”
Laslo couldn’t make out what Cantwell said.
ML: “Do you think…?”
They enter the elevator.
ML: “Thank you ma’am.”
Matt Laslo’s a veteran congressional correspondent, new media prof. & founder of Ask a Pol — a new, people-powered press corps.
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