{"id":254211,"date":"2026-05-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/how-a-new-data-privacy-law-keeps-utahns-safe\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:05:13","slug":"how-a-new-data-privacy-law-keeps-utahns-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/how-a-new-data-privacy-law-keeps-utahns-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"How a new data privacy law keeps Utahns safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/opinion\/2026\/05\/24\/data-privacy-law-helps-prevent-political-violence\/\">How a new data privacy law keeps Utahns safe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/opinion\/2026\/05\/24\/data-privacy-law-helps-prevent-political-violence\/\">https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/opinion\/2026\/05\/24\/data-privacy-law-helps-prevent-political-violence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-24 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.deseret.com\">www.deseret.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University was a shocking reminder that political violence can touch us anywhere in today\u2019s world. When dangerous people can track down their targets with ease, national tensions can play out in our own backyards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That\u2019s why it\u2019s worth celebrating the passage of a new data privacy law that could make Utah a leader in the fight against political violence. HB450, signed by Gov. Spencer Cox in March, includes a provision to protect family homes from being exposed to attacks through campaign finance reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Previously, an individual who gave as little as $51 to a candidate in Utah had their street name and number published in state records for all to see. Exposing exact home addresses is not necessary to provide transparency to voters, and it puts Utahns and their families at risk every time they support a campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was once possible to dismiss these privacy invasions as trivial. Few people used \u2014 let alone abused \u2014 political contribution records when they were stored on paper. But the internet, smartphones, GPS and other technological advances changed the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Every year, it gets easier to access, analyze and weaponize the personal information these reports contain. In an era of rising political violence, states would be wise to clean up their laws now, before donors become targets. Utah did exactly that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HB450 updates the state\u2019s donor records for the digital age by removing the exact home addresses of individual donors. The money will still be transparent and traceable. The donations and the donor\u2019s identity will still be public. But extremists will no longer be handed road maps for terror.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The law, which addressed a wide range of data privacy topics, passed 66-1 in the House and 28-0 in the Senate. That overwhelming bipartisan support is a reminder that privacy is not a partisan issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Federal Election Commission (FEC), the bipartisan agency tasked with enforcing the federal campaign finance laws,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/opinion\/2026\/05\/24\/data-privacy-law-helps-prevent-political-violence\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a new data privacy law keeps Utahns safe https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/opinion\/2026\/05\/24\/data-privacy-law-helps-prevent-political-violence\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-24 11:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/resizer\/v2\/A5Z3GNALSVHOFBASLKHYWXTG7Q.JPG?focal=0%2C0&auth=8eaa3d5a4a0f9665253c53975692338405c83e46ea4732a6ec0fe20c6b5d33fe&width=630&height=331","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254215,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254211\/revisions\/254215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}