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"I don't think it's realistic to think that there's going to be a bill that's going to have the government holding the metadata," said Grassley.
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But Obama believes "that we can and should be able to preserve those capabilities while addressing the privacy and civil liberties concerns that are raised by the government holding this metadata," the official said.
The staggering distinction between the two underwrote the decision of United States District Judge Richard Leon holding the NSA's metadata program unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.
Another aspect of the Patriot Act, which has been highly confidential was the Telephone Metadata program, which under § 215 of the Patriot Act, had allowed the NSA to collect data about Americans' telephone calls in bulk, was reviewed by the Second Circuit in ACLU v. Clapper, in which the court held the Telephone Metadata program illegal under the Congress' original intent under the §215.
Under that bill, the telephone companies will instead hold the phone metadata, and the NSA will have to seek a court order for more targeted phone records when they need them.
The program allows the government to collect and hold onto the "metadata" of all Americans' phone calls for five years.
The NSA holds this metadata in a very large database for a period of five years, after which it is expunged.
Files that are recovered will have generic files names since, in the deletion process, the metadata that holds the file names are stripped off.
Instead of having the government hold the database of phone call "metadata," Obama is proposing to shift control to a private entity.
On one hand, it can be considered a good thing that third-party operators like Neustar hold the keys to vaults of metadata that telecommunications leave behind; that they operate as a middle-man between law enforcement agencies (LEA) and the telecom providers who can sometimes struggle with processing LEA requests for information.
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