{"id":266243,"date":"2026-06-06T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/ag-data-privacy-now-protected-by-law\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:20:09","slug":"ag-data-privacy-now-protected-by-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/ag-data-privacy-now-protected-by-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag data privacy: Now protected by law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northplattebulletin.com\/ag-data-privacy-now-protected-by-law\/\">Ag data privacy: Now protected by law<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northplattebulletin.com\/ag-data-privacy-now-protected-by-law\/\">https:\/\/northplattebulletin.com\/ag-data-privacy-now-protected-by-law\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-06 20:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"northplattebulletin.com\">northplattebulletin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. Jim Pillen, Sen. Mike Jacobson, and State Agriculture Director Sherry Vinton celebrated the enactment of a law Saturday that protects the agricultural data of individual farms and ranches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of Nebraska\u2019s agricultural industry joined the event, which was held in a farm machine shed near Gothenburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill, LB 525, establishes clear rules for the collection, processing and use of agricultural data in a way that best protects the privacy of farmers and ranchers who own the data. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacobson initially introduced the bill in 2025 on behalf of Pillen and it was passed this year.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94697\" src=\"https:\/\/northplattebulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CT-web-ad-ani-350x57-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"57\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nebraska is the first state in the nation to enact specific digital privacy safeguards, Jacobson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLB 525 represents critical, forward-thinking policy when it comes to preserving the future of our family farms,\u201d Pillen said. Again, Nebraska is setting the standard \u2013 one that will add value and protect our state\u2019s key economic engine \u2014 agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122563\" src=\"https:\/\/northplattebulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mortgage_Campaign_DigitalAds_350x57_FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"57\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the past 30 years, agricultural production has been significantly transformed through advances in technology. Farmers rely on automated, GPS-guided steering in tractors, sprayers and combines, computerized seeding rate systems, variable-rate chemigation and irrigation technology, and real-time yield data captured during harvest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every season, such information is collected. Farmers and producers can capitalize on it, if it\u2019s properly protected, Pillen said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124272\" src=\"https:\/\/northplattebulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/040726-Merricks-in-story-web-ad-ani-350x57-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"57\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacobson noted that \u201cAgriculture is Nebraska\u2019s largest industry, and modern operations generate significant amounts of proprietary digital data that our producers rely on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said he \u201cwas proud to partner with Gov. Pillen to pass LB 525 to establish clear legal protections for this valuable operational data, explicitly prohibiting its unauthorized sale and requiring reasonable security standards.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs the first state in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northplattebulletin.com\/ag-data-privacy-now-protected-by-law\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ag data privacy: Now protected by law https:\/\/northplattebulletin.com\/ag-data-privacy-now-protected-by-law\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-06 20:19:00 Source Domain: northplattebulletin.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/northplattebulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jacobson-n-060626.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266246,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266243\/revisions\/266246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}