Phone Companies, Despite Resistance, ShouldrnHold Metadata, Review Group Tells Congress

摘要

Members of Congress wrestled with questions of whether phone companies rather than the federalrngovernment should hold onto consumers’ calling metadata. The government currently stockpiles phonernmetadata for surveillance purposes by its intelligence agencies. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committeernquestioned the five-member surveillance review group that President Barack Obama put togetherrnthis fall.