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Utah Senate narrows draft 'doxing' ban after floor debate over privacy and free-speech scope
Summary
Senators debated amendments to a proposed doxing prohibition (referred to in the transcript as Senate Bill 227) after several lawmakers warned language could criminalize posting of information from private online groups. Sponsors agreed to strike telephone numbers and clarify that liability requires stolen data plus intent to harm. The amended bill later passed on the floor.
Senators debated an amended bill aimed at expanding criminal liability for those who disseminate stolen personal information, with several lawmakers warning that the draft language could sweep too broadly into ordinary online behavior.
Sponsor Jay Stevenson, identified on the floor as the bill’s author, told colleagues the measure is designed to hold accountable people who obtain and then disseminate another person’s private identifying information with the intent that others will further disseminate it and cause harm. “The intent to harm” language, Stevenson said, narrows the bill’s application to deliberate wrongdoing and is…
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