Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., tore...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., tore into the idea of allowing a third party to hold phone metadata for surveillance rather than the government. He has already criticized the idea of phone companies holding the metadata, as some…
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have proposed. President Barack Obama has said the government should transition away from holding the metadata, if possible. “One of the most remarkable things in my lifetime is the ignorance of people who should know better, very much including the press,” Rockefeller said Thursday during a summit on distracted driving, mentioning the third-party idea. “That would take 30 years to get people trained to the point where they're the absolute and total experts. … Nobody understands that, nobody wants to take the time to understand that, which is depressing, because it’s a very large fact, so people don’t pay attention.”