Senators who voted for warrantless surveillance suddenly care about privacy

Published April 11, 2018 2:05pm ET



Lawmakers only think protecting your data privacy is important when said data is being collected by a private organization. The same congressmen and women who have routinely undermined Fourth Amendment rights are now arguing that Facebook hasn’t done enough to protect its users’ publicly available data.

During a cringe-worthy hearing Tuesday afternoon, senators grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with questions about the company’s privacy policies. The hearing was sparked by the revelation that data from some 87 million Facebook users was collected by Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm linked to the 2016 Trump campaign.

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