House Bill 57 modified provisions about privacy of electronic information and data for Utahns. Rep. Craig Hall, R-Utah, pitched the bill in order to require police to get search warrants before accessing Utahns' electronic information, which up until this point has not been a necessity.

"Traditionally, we have pretty good protection with case law and statutes that protect our physical stuff if law enforcement wants to search any of our belongings such as our homes, cars, or hard drives," Hall explained. "If law enforcement wants to search any of those things, they have to get a warrant first."

It's a little vague with respect to the electronic world. Hall said the goal of HB57 "is to provide the same protections we have in the physical world and apply those to the electronic world."

The Libertas Institute, a think-tank that seeks to create a freer Utah through legal research and lawsuits, was active in the passage of this bill. Connor Boyack, the organization's founder, said, "The U.S. Supreme Court recently required that our cell phone location data be protected by a warrant, which is a small step in the right direction. Utah's new law takes that principle and puts it on steroids, applying it to all of our electronic data."