License plate scanners in widespread use by law enforcement agencies hold the potential for misuse by divorce lawyers or police who use information on a motorist’s whereabouts as fodder for an “interrogation game,” a Utah legislator said Friday.
Utah has no law governing the use, collection or lifespan of tracking data on motorists who have done no wrong, said Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross. He plans to introduce legislation in January to make clear the information cannot be kept in a databank longer than six months, or subpoenaed in divorce or other civil litigation.
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