Utah lawmaker dumps too- pricey privacy bill, pitches a milder version

HB19 » Republican waters down bill that would have required agencies to stop using nine-digit identifiers that mimic Social Security numbers.

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"There will be documentation costs. The PID [personal identifier] is on some notices that we send out," said the agency’s legal counsel Geoffrey Landward.

But upgrading the agency’s new multi-million client tracking system would cost-prohibitive, he said.

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