| Updated: 2:13 p.m.
It seems like ages ago now that Utah officials were making plans for a massive data-guzzling surveillance program from a company called Banjo, designed to help alert law enforcement to potential crimes as they happen.
The program, promoted aggressively by Attorney General Sean Reyes, fell apart not because of privacy concerns, but because of revelations that the company’s founder was involved in a white supremacist attack on a Jewish synagogue in his youth. Really.
Now he’s poised to do something about it.
Gibson has introduced HB243, which would create a chief privacy officer for the state and a 12-member Personal Privacy Oversight Committee the first of its kind in the United States, according to supporters made up of experts in the field and housed in the Utah State Auditor’s Office.