The Office of the Director of National Intelligence...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a request for information last week asking about how to potentially move the storage of phone metadata from government hands to elsewhere. Responses are due Wednesday. ODNI is looking into “whether existing commercially available capabilities can provide for a new approach to the government’s telephony metadata bulk collection program under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, without the government holding the metadata,” it said in the request (http://1.usa.gov/1caC9RC). Responses may shape the government’s next steps, it said.