Obama seeks Congress vote to end bulk NSA phone data collection

President Barack Obama has asked Congress to end National Security Agency's bulk collection of US phone records.

The proposal requires the government to receive a court order to access telecom companies' records.

The NSA is understood to collect call records from specific telecom firms daily and to keep them for five years, the BBC reports.

The plan follows widespread anger after leaks revealed the full extent of US surveillance operations.

Under the new proposal, the government will reportedly only seek specific records that telecom companies possess.

The government must gain approval from a secret surveillance court in order to access the record.

The government to carry out surveillance should also prove there is a reasonable suspicion that a phone number is connected to a terrorist.