Don’t freak out, but the government records and stores every phone call and email. Is the government recording and listening to your every phone call and probing every email for dangerous ideas? Probably—if certain insiders are to be believed. According to one former FBI agent, the US government may indeed keep a massive database where all domestic communications are recorded and stored. Every day collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications.