Nebraska has joined the growing number of states to adopt a comprehensive consumer data protection law this legislative session. The Governor signed the Data Privacy Act (the Act) into law on April 17, 2024, where the Act takes effect on January 1, 2025. We will provide detailed analysis of the […]
Technology & Intellectual Property Update
The Threat from Open-Source Software
Background On March 29, 2024, a Microsoft developer noticed something wrong with his Debian system using XZ Utils. XZ Utils is a compression algorithm that is used extensively on Linux systems, especially some of the most ubiquitous systems such as Debian and Red Hat. According to reports, the user account […]
CFPB Supervisory Highlights Focuses on Accuracy of Credit Reporting
Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) published the latest edition of its Supervisory Highlights for Spring 2024. The latest edition of supervisory highlights focuses on credit reporting and cites instances involving both credit reporting companies and furnishers of reporting information as needing correction under the Fair Credit […]
The Ever-Expanding Liability of Cyber-Breaches
In a recent court case filed in Superior Court in California[1], a law firm alleges that a managed service provider (“MSP”) is partly to blame for the loss of their data as a result of a cyber-breach. The law firm’s complaint states that the MSP was hired in part to […]
Governor Pillen Signs Genetic Information Privacy Act
Consistent with the national trend focusing on data privacy, this Nebraska Unicameral session has considered several data privacy related bills. One in particular, LB 308 (the Genetic Information Privacy Act or “GIPA”), made its way to the Governor who signed the bill into law on February 13, 2024. Nebraska’s GIPA […]