Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) works at the intersection of privacy and technology, advocating for greater government transparency and better protection for consumers. Alvaro Bedoya, chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, is Fran­ken’s point person in this ever-changing arena.

“The fact is, our privacy laws are way behind our technology in providing the most very basic protections for people,” said Bedoya, who began working for Franken, the subcommittee’s chairman, in 2009. “Privacy law is embarrassingly weak.”

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