Obama has prepared a bill on the termination of a complete record of conversations of citizens

US President Barack Obama is preparing to submit a bill in which the National Security Agency’s program on recording telephone conversations of all citizens will be “drastically revised, ” The Verge reports with reference to The New York Times. According to the bill, all data on the conversations will remain in the hands of telephone operators, from whom they will not be required to store this data for longer than necessary, and the NSA will not have access to them unless it provides evidence that a particular call was related to terrorism.

Currently, the NSA can store data on conversations for five years. According to The New York Times, the Obama administration will extend this program for "at least another 90-day cycle," but after that it plans to abandon it and replace it with a new one. According to the draft, the NSA will not be allowed to collect and store all data on calls, instead, the agency will be able to receive data on calls to specific numbers with the permission of the court, if the judge agrees that these numbers are related to terrorism.

In January, during a speech on NSA reform, Obama promised to close the call recording program in the form in which it now exists. The American president singled out three recommendations for dealing with data on calls: take control of the metadata from the NSA, ensure that all data collected is relevant to the investigation, and stop storing personal information. Obama gave the special services time before March 28 in order to come up with a scheme that will allow to achieve these goals.
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While the prepared bill will help resolve the issue of recording telephone conversations, it will not affect other data collection programs, including the CIA tracking of remittance reports. The bill also does not affect many other important privacy issues that have come to light from Edward Snowden’s leaks, such as collecting NSA web data or the agency’s efforts to hack Google and Yahoo’s private networks.