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Mark Warner raises issue with Facebook emotion experiments

Chris Graham

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) asked privacy and consumer protection experts at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to provide more information on recent reports that the social network Facebook conducted an experiment involving nearly 700,000 users to study the emotional impact of manipulating information on their News Feeds.

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Sens. Warner, Kirk propose enhanced consumer protections for debit cards

Chris Graham

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) introduced the Consumer Debit Card Protection Act of 2014 (CDCPA), designed to increase consumer protections and reduce liability caps when debit cardholders are hit by fraud. Under federal law, personal liability for fraudulent charges on a credit card are capped at $50, but the same protection does…

Chris Graham: Throw healthcare reform out with the bathwater

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We all get it. The Obamacare website isn’t working. Nice pound of flesh with the visuals at the congressional hearing the other day. So, the website isn’t working, and thus we might as well just scrap the whole thing. The millions of uninsured and underinsured, hell with you. Perpetually rising healthcare costs that affect all of us, so what.