
“If you’ve been to the Bahamas recently, the National Security Agency (NSA) knows who you called and what you said while you were there. If you called some guy whose number a friend of a friend provided for you to score some weed while on the island to help you relax, because you’re one of those people who actually gets even more wound up while on vacation, the NSA knows that, too. The latest big revelation from Edward Snowden’s files is that the NSA has the ability to record and store the content (not just the metadata) of all cell phone conversations in the Bahamas and at least one other country. The Bahamas: A hotbed of terrorism activity?”
http://reason.com/blog/2014/05/20/nsa-records-all-phone-calls-in-bahamas
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