Legal and Compliance Support for the $42.45B Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Grant Program
The Internet is essential for access to economic opportunity, education, health care, justice, and so much more. Unfortunately, there are millions of people around the country who still don’t have the access, digital skills, or devices needed to use it.
41 Attorneys General Call On Meta To Protect Users’ Accounts From Scammers
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 break into a user’s account and change passwords,…
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…
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…
51 Attorneys General Urge Efforts to Stop Robocallers from Misusing Legitimate Phone Numbers
Washington, D.C. — The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) today wrote the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in support of its efforts to reduce illegal robocallers’ access to legitimate phone numbers to make unending robocalls that scam people out of their hard-earned money. The comment letter to the FCC was signed by all 50 state…
