President Barack Obama on Friday will announce the end of a telephone metadata collection program that has come under harsh criticism, a senior US official told AFP.
"In his speech, the President will say that he is ordering a transition that will end the Section 215 telephone metadata program as it currently exists," the official said, as Obama prepared to unveil long awaited reforms of NSA surveillance techniques.
President Barack Obama on Friday will announce the end of a telephone metadata collection program that has come under harsh criticism, a senior US official told AFP.
“In his speech, the President will say that he is ordering a transition that will end the Section 215 telephone metadata program as it currently exists,” the official said, as Obama prepared to unveil long awaited reforms of NSA surveillance techniques.
