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Nicholas Begich: “We need to be in charge...private actors, they need to be…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Live with Nick Begich for U.S. Congress

Published | Video Starts at 38:52

Yeah, so, so my point, it's a long answer, but my point is we've got to get a rein in on the technology because right now the technology is running wild and it's controlling us. We need to be in charge...private actors, they need to be constrained on the information that they can collect, store, transmit about American citizens. american citizens. We've got to have a right to privacy in this country. And I think it's something that's desperately needed. All right, now here's my other tech question real quick. (38:52–39:07)

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Asserts the need to limit private actors' data collection and transmission.

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