--- title: Senator Al Franken | TIME description: Al Franken is a Democratic senator for Minnesota and member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law. canonical: https://time.com/author/senator-al-franken/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/senator-al-franken/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Senator Al Franken  ## Senator Al Franken Al Franken is a Democratic senator for Minnesota and member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law.  ## Senator Al Franken *  Oct 23, 2016 ### [Al Franken and Mignon Clyburn: How Your Internet Provider Restricts Your Rights](https://time.com/4541176/al-franken-arbitration-clauses/) No business should be too big to hold accountable in a court of law [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 27, 2015 ### [Politicians Didn't Stop the Comcast–Time Warner Deal. You Did](https://time.com/3836776/al-franken-comcast-time-warner-deal/) Here are five lessons we should learn from the fight over the merger [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/senator-al-franken/","name":"Senator Al Franken"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/senator-al-franken/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/senator-al-franken/"},"name":"Senator Al Franken","jobTitle":null,"description":"Al Franken is a Democratic senator for Minnesota and member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law.","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd44b86416ce20668/6987ed37f887dcb293e8e2fa/al-franken1.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/senator-al-franken/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```