The government may look to industry as an alternative to National Security Agency (NSA) storage of bulk phone records, IDG News reports. The government’s request for information (RFI) seeks information on commercially available services from U.S. industries, the report states, quoting comments from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that the government is investigating options that would maintain “the current capabilities of that system and the existing protections for U.S. persons” without having the government store the metadata. The RFI follows President Barack Obama’s NSA speech last month calling for a new plan to “establish a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk metadata.”
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