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• US Senate leader to push for vote to renew NSA phone dragnet

  Senators could vote on a Patriot Act extension bill as soon as Friday

• Obama cyberattacker sanctions raise due process, attribution concerns

  New financial sanctions announced by the White House target cyberattackers, but some question how agencies will identify targets

• Obama administration's encryption concerns meant to start a debate

  The U.S. government still supports using encryption but has questions about law enforcement access to data

• NTIA to push for drone privacy standards

  The agency will host a series of meetings on privacy best practices for drones in the coming months

• Privacy advocates find Obama proposal lacking

  The proposed consumer privacy bill of rights allows companies to limit consumer control, critics say

• White House privacy proposal aims to give consumers control over data

  Some privacy advocates, however, say the draft bill limits privacy enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission