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 have allowed Park City-based tech company Banjo to sell data it collected through government agencies to an outside organization.
The agreement was reached last month and later suspended. It called for Intermountain Healthcare to pay $60,000 for equipment that carried a Banjo computer platform that had monitored a wide range of government surveillance data - from security cameras to 911 calls.
Intermountain spokesman Daron Cowley said the contracted work had not yet started.
The government surveillance data was made available to Banjo under contracts with Utah and local governments to develop a crime-detection program. Those contracts were suspended following reports from the technology publication OneZero that Banjo founder Damien Patton was involved with a Ku Klux Klan faction as a teenager and a drive-by shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee synagogue 30 years ago.
Attorney General Sean Reyes said he would run an independent audit to address privacy concerns it has received over the program and possible bias.
Banjo did not immediately respond to an emailed request from The Associated Press for comment about the Intermountain contract. Patton has acknowledged his “despicable and hateful” past deeds and said he welcomes the audit.
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