Welcome to a tech policy podcast. I'm Ashken Kazarian.

Today we have Connor Boyak, president and founder of a libertist institute in Utah, who was one of the driving forces behind, in my opinion, one of the most progressive Fourth Amendment surveillance reforms

on state level in the history of America.

Connor, thank you for joining us.

Wow, how about that intro?

I'm going to write that down on my business card.

Thanks for having me.

Before we dive into what's going on and what was the reform, why do you say librettas in student

out Libertas is my question.

That's the pressing question everyone wants to know.

When I set it up seven or eight years ago, I asked a couple professors of, you know, language,

I can't remember their titles.

And how would you pronounce this thing?

A lot of people don't know that libertus or libertas

or however you pronounce it. It's the Roman goddess of liberty. So the statue of liberty, that's

her name. And most people don't know that she has a name. But of course, Latin's a dead language.

And so I guess based on the construction of the phonetics and whatever and how you would say it,

there were two schools of thought right it may

and probably would have been pronounced libertas or you could pronounce it libertis and i kind of i like

it's something more suave to me so we we went with libertis you know that's that's exactly the same

answer that my father a linguist gave me a linguistics professor who teaches

dead languages so you're off the hook wow okay good all right i'll tell others all right so let's dive in

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