privacy

Facial recognition is an exciting technology in a commercial or research context, but becomes scarier when in the hands of law enforcement. More problematic is the fact that Utah officials have been using this technology without any law governing its use—only their own internal policies that they alone control.
Utah lawmakers will be presented a simple question in January: should police officers be able to go on fishing expeditions in privately owned or crowd-sourced DNA databases?
If warrants are being issued in mere seconds, is the justice system working?
This bill would require the state to purge identifying information about an individual in the drug database after 24 months.
Our privacy interest in digital data stored with or created by a third party must be protected from warrantless searches.
This bill lowers the window tint limit to 25%—meaning that drivers could legally operate with darker tint on their front side windows.

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