A few days ago, we learned that Utah State Rep. V. Lowry Snow had introduced a bill, H.B. 330, that would have prevented the recording of a private conversation without the consent of the other person (with few exceptions).
That sounds perfectly reasonable… until you realize the impetus for the bill — and the reason it was backed by the Mormon Church shortly after it was filed — was that several critics of the Church had exposed certain religious practices by surreptitiously recording temple ceremonies and bishops' statements. This bill would've targeted those recordings.
But after a lot of public backlash, the legislators are backing down. (Well done, everyone.)
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