Robert Gehrke: How Utah became a digital privacy leader, while making a few mistakes along the way An audit of the state’s contract with Banjo helps refine the government’s relationship with Big Data. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Robert Gehrke. | April 4, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Last week, we got a long-awaited audit into the state’s controversial and ultimately aborted contract with Banjo, a company that touted its ability to gobble up vast amounts of public and state-held data on all of us and use it to fight crime. Auditors found the Big Brother tech didn’t follow industry best practices and shouldn’t have been allowed access to our personal information. That’s the bad news.