The government keeps getting ahead of public awareness when it comes to tools and technologies that can undermine privacy if not appropriately limited.
This proposal establishes oversight to ensure government agencies can't just use whatever surveillance technologies they want, without broader input/engagement first.
There are quite a few bills that you might not have heard about, simply because they failed to pass or because the worst parts were amended out of the bill.
Governor Herbert announced a partnership between Utah and a local company to develop a track-and-trace app to inform citizens if they have been exposed to COVID-19.