President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board said they would approach privacy and civil liberties issues with an open mind and take upcoming surveillance debates in Congress seriously.
Democrat Travis LeBlanc and Republican Aditya Bamzai faced questions from Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) about recent privacy incidents impacting Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. during their Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing. Lawmakers also questioned LeBlanc and Bamzai about U.S. surveillance topics, such as expiring sections of the USA FREEDOM Act related to electronic intelligence gathering.
LeBlanc and Bamzai, a professor at the University ...
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