Jay Craven: Will politicians act on data mining?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jay Craven, of Peacham, a filmmaker who is the director of Kingdom County Productions. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. This piece first aired on VPR.
Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony this week before Congress reminds me of a conversation I had, some 40 years ago, with my part-time neighbor, the late Richard Barnet, who worked in JFK’s State Department and co-founded Washington’s Institute for Policy Studies.
I ran into Barnet one Augu