Senator: let’s fix “third-party doctrine” that enabled NSA mass snooping

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) gave the keynote address on Wednesday at RightsCon in San Francisco.

Cyrus Farivar

SAN FRANCISCO—This past week hundreds of lawyers, technologists, journalists, activists, and others from around the globe descended upon a university conference center to try to figure out the state of digital rights in 2016. The conference, appropriately dubbed “RightsCon,” featured many notable speakers, including Edward Snowden via video-conference, but relatively few from those inside government.

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Senator: let’s fix “third-party doctrine” that enabled NSA mass snooping