{"id":23414,"date":"2018-02-23T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=23414"},"modified":"2018-02-23T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:43:12","slug":"cost-free-consumer-protections-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=23414","title":{"rendered":"Cost-free consumer protections passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 23 that ensures free credit monitoring to consumers following a data security breach.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20154\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20154\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20154\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMorfeld_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senmorfeld_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Adam Morfeld&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Adam Morfeld&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMorfeld_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20154\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMorfeld_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Adam Morfeld\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMorfeld_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMorfeld_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Adam Morfeld<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB757, introduced by Lincoln Sen. Adam Morfeld, prohibits a credit-monitoring agency from charging fees to place, temporarily lift or remove a security freeze following a data breach similar to the one experienced by Equifax in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A security freeze places a hold on a person\u2019s credit report, preventing identity thieves from opening fraudulent credit accounts using stolen information.<\/p>\n<p>Any individual or commercial entity conducting business in Nebraska that owns, licenses or maintains data including personal information will be required to implement reasonable security measures to safeguard that information. A third-party service provider that receives personal information from an individual or commercial entity also will be required to implement such security measures.<\/p>\n<p>The bill authorizes the state attorney general to prosecute a violation of the bill\u2019s security provisions as a violation of the Consumer Protection Act.<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s provisions apply only to third-party contracts entered into after the bill\u2019s enactment and protections against data breaches apply only to computerized data.<\/p>\n<p>LB757 does not provide a private cause for action in the case of a data breach.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed the bill on a 46-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 23 that ensures free credit monitoring to consumers following a data security breach.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-23414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-adam-morfeld"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23418,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414\/revisions\/23418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}