{"id":26191,"date":"2019-05-02T05:11:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T11:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26191"},"modified":"2019-05-02T05:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T11:11:59","slug":"call-spoofing-bill-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26191","title":{"rendered":"Call spoofing bill passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that authorizes investigations of telemarketers who knowingly manipulate caller ID information was passed by the Legislature May 2.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20136\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20136\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20136\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"senhalloran_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Halloran&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Halloran&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20136\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Steve Halloran\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Steve Halloran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB693, sponsored by Hastings Sen. Steve Halloran, targets companies that use caller ID to make it appear as though phone calls are from a trusted number\u2014a process known as \u201cspoofing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It prohibits any person from selling or renting a phone number to an out-of-state entity unless the telephone number is listed publicly and can be verified by a telecommunications provider.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also prohibits any person working in connection with a telecommunications service or internet-enabled voice service from causing a caller ID service to knowingly provide misleading or inaccurate information with the intent to defraud, harm or wrongfully obtain anything of value.<\/p>\n<p>The provisions of LB693 do not apply to authorized law enforcement activity or a court order that authorizes caller ID manipulation. The Nebraska Public Service Commission is authorized to impose administrative penalties on violators, not to exceed $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>The state attorney general can investigate violations of the bill under the Consumer Protection Act. These violations do not give cause for private civil action.<\/p>\n<p>Local telecommunications companies are exempt from the bill\u2019s provisions as long as they are acting in accordance with federal law.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 49-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that authorizes investigations of telemarketers who knowingly manipulate caller ID information was passed by the Legislature May 2.<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-26191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation-and-telecommunications","tag-sen-steve-halloran"],"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\/26191","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=26191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26192,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26191\/revisions\/26192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}