May 16, 2006 5:23PM 

# Sensenbrenner Wants Your Cache 

By [Radley Balko](https://www.cato.org/people/radley-balko) 

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James Sensenbrenner, the same congressman who gave us the [“two years in jail for not snitching”](http://www.talkleft.com/new_archives/010719.html) bill, now wants [to force Internet service providers](http://news.com.com/2102-1028_3-6072601.html?tag=st.util.print) to keep a database of all the websites their users have visited. The bill leaves it up to the U.S. Attorney General to determine just how detailed those databases should be, but it could include not only detailed logs of websites visited, but of email, encrypted information, and the contents of conversations over VOIP.

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