Technology & Intellectual Property Update

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As it did with the regulation of data privacy by adopting the GDPR, the European Union is once again at the forefront of regulation.  This time the EU Parliament has taken up regulation of AI.  The Parliament started down the path to define regulations related to the use of AI […]