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Tech firm with suspended contracts had outside data deal

Tech firm with suspended contracts had outside data deal

By /May 3, 2020 /Local News

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A surveillance technology company that had a $21 million contract with the state of Utah suspended over its founder’s past associations with white supremacists also had a contract with a healthcare company, to track coronavirus patient data. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the contract would […]

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Utah halts crime-detection deal over company’s past KKK ties

Utah halts crime-detection deal over company’s past KKK ties

By /April 30, 2020 /Local News

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s attorney general has suspended a $20.7 million contract with a technology company amid reports that its founder once belonged to a white supremacist group and was involved in a drive-by shooting. The company Banjo was using government surveillance data to develop a crime-detection program. […]

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