A Bipartisan Coalition of 41 Attorneys General Call On Meta To Protect Users’ Accounts From Scammers
For Release: March 6, 2024 Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) sent a letter to Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) on behalf of a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general that addresses the recent rise of Facebook and Instagram platform account takeovers by scammers and frauds. Account takeovers are when bad actors…
NASCIO Perspective: The State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program
The passage and signing into law of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (the Act) provided historic levels of funding to states, territories, tribes and localities to address pressing infrastructure needs. While “traditional” infrastructure priorities that include roads and bridges were a central focus of the bill, broadband expansion and cybersecurity concerns also garnered substantial…
NAAG Announces Formation of Center on Cyber and Technology
Washington, D.C. — The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) has established the Center on Cyber and Technology. The new Center is dedicated to developing programs and resources to support state attorneys general and their staffs in understanding technical aspects of emerging and evolving technologies, conducting cybercrime investigations and prosecutions, and ensuring secure and resilient…
Discussing Privacy Fallacies: Concluding Thoughts
Third in a Series Talking about privacy is like trying to hug an octopus. The concept covers a wide array of practices and technologies, including targeted advertising, surveillance, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, biometrics and facial recognition, social media platforms and mobile apps, and online and geolocation tracking, to name just a few. Understanding all…
Discussing Privacy: More Fallacies, and Why Context Matters
Part 2 in an Ongoing Series Data is the oil of the modern economy. That analogy, although it has become a cliché, seems even more apt when you dig deeper. A century ago, we were building our economy around the suddenly ubiquitous flow of oil. We didn’t assign much weight to the externalities in our…
The State of State Cybersecurity: An Update for the Attorney General Community
The increased frequency and scale of recent ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure and private networks has raised serious concerns and questions about the cyber vulnerabilities of our nation’s public and private sector networks, particularly critical infrastructure. This on-demand course provides an update on the state of state cybersecurity, including state critical assets generally, and government…
Privacy in the Information Age: Legislative and Policy Approaches
Last year, state attorneys general from around the country gathered in Vermont for the 2021 NAAG Eastern Region conference on The Surveillance Economy: How Attorneys General Protect Privacy, Safety, and Equality in the Information Age. During one panel, experts discussed innovative legislative and policy approaches to enhancing privacy in the digital age. State attorneys general…
Debunking the Privacy Fallacies
This is the first in a series of articles about privacy-related issues that may be of interest to state attorneys general. When I was in law school, “privacy law” wasn’t really discussed. Today, it seems like all anyone can talk about. That might be because I work on privacy and data security matters for the…
