President Obama Unveils Plan To End NSA Metadata Storage; New Policy Entails Storing Such Data With Telephone Numbers

President Obama announced his plan to end the National Security Agency's program of collecting telephone metadata on Thursday. Instead, telephone metadata will be stored with telephone companies. "Having carefully considered the available options, I have decided that the best path forward is that the government should not collect or hold this data in bulk. Instead, the data should remain at the telephone companies for the length of time it currently does today," Obama said in a statement.