Nearly 10 months after the Guardian exposed the controversial program, based on leaks from Edward Snowden, President Obama announced that he would seek legislation that would require the NSA to seek an individual order from the secret Fisa court before phone companies turn over data on their customers..."I have decided that the best path forward is that the government should not collect or hold this data in bulk," Obama said in a statement. "Instead, the data should remain at the telephone companies for the length of time it currently does today."...Privacy groups also expressed wariness that Obama’s proposals on Thursday only covered phone data. “This raises the possibility that the government could collect other types of information in bulk, including internet metadata, location information and financial transactions,” said Harley Geiger of the Center for Democracy and Technology.