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Utah's law against secretly installing GPS trackers on someone's vehicle would be renamed and significantly expanded under this bill to also cover placing tracking devices on a person's body or belongings, and using tracking apps or software to monitor someone's movements without permission; the bill also clarifies that continuing to track someone after they revoke previously given consent is itself a violation, even if consent was given earlier. The bill would create several exceptions to this expanded law, including for licensed private investigators, peace officers acting in their official capacity, parents or guardians tracking minors (with the other parent's or guardian's consent), caregivers of vulnerable adults, rental companies tracking their own vehicles, and vehicle owners who lend out their car to others. Victims who win a civil lawsuit could choose between recovering their actual documented losses or statutory damages of at least $5,000 (or $50 per day of the violation, whichever is greater), plus reasonable attorney fees and possible punitive damages, and courts would be required to order an end to any ongoing violation. A not-guilty verdict in a related criminal case would not prevent a court from finding the same person liable in a civil case, though any restitution ordered criminally would be subtracted from civil damages awarded.