Senator: Colleagues have warped view of privacy

Published May 24, 2016 2:56pm ET



Congress isn’t qualified to judge the appropriate balance between privacy and security, according to Sen. Tim Kaine, because they find the concept of privacy too unrelatable.

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We’re different from the American public in a whole lot of ways,” the Virginia Democrat told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Tuesday. “But I would argue there is no area where we are fundamentally more different in that we have long ago surrendered any expectation of privacy, and we have forgotten what it is to have an expectation of privacy.”

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