Thu Jul 18, 2013 AT 10:04 AM EDT
In a heated confrontation over domestic spying, members of Congress said Wednesday they never intended to allow the National Security Agency to build a database of every phone call in America, the AP reports. Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the Wisconsin Republican who was chief author of the Patriot Act in 2001, said that Congress specifically tried to limit the law’s uses when it renewed the provisions that allow the government to collect data from businesses without first obtaining a warrant, according to the Washington Times. Speaking of warrantless searches, chances are, your local police department have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong, according to a study published Wednesday by the ACLU.