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The National Security Agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported yesterday.

The order was granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and is good until July 19. It requires Verizon — on an “ongoing, daily basis” — to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the United States and to other countries.

The document shows for the first time that, under the Obama administration, the communication records of millions of US citizens were being collected indiscriminately and in bulk, regardless of whether they were suspected of any wrongdoing.

Verizon spokesman Ed McFadden yesterday said the company had no comment. The White House and the NSA declined to comment.

Under the terms of the order, the phone numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers and the time the call was placed. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered, the Guardian said.