Obama to ask Congress to end NSA bulk data collection
Administration will also seek the NSA to hold onto call data for only 18 months, as opposed to the current five years
Senior administration officials in the US government have revealed that President Barack Obama is seeking to "end the aspect that most alarmed privacy advocates" since ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden blew...
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