Obama to stop NSA from storing telephone data in bulk - but it will still be stored
Phone data will instead be stored by a third party
US president Barack Obama will command the National Security Agency (NSA) to stop storing data from American citizens' phones, after leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden left the White House with...
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