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‘Wild West’ days of internet over, Sen. Warner Says

By Bloomberg
14 April 2019   |   3:08 pm
Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, discusses a bipartisan bill that would ban "manipulative" design features and prompts that let large websites "trick consumers into handing over their personal data."

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