On December 17, 2025, a bipartisan group of 23 Attorneys General from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, sent a comment letter to the Federal Communications Commission
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Privacy Tip #467 – Employee Access of Malicious Website Causes Nevada Breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
Nevada suffered a ransomware attack in August 2025 that caused a significant disruption in services. The attackers deleted the state’s backups, encrypted virtual machines, and deployed ransomware that affected 60 state agencies, including the Departments of Health and Human Services, Public Safety, and Motor Vehicles.
Despite the significance of the attack, Nevada refused to pay…
Privacy Tip #365 – Nevada Enacts Consumer Health Data Privacy Law
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo recently signed into law a sweeping and restrictive consumer health data privacy law that requires covered entities (defined as any person who conducts business in the state or produces or provides products or services that are targeted to consumers in Nevada) to provide privacy rights to consumers who provide health data…
Utah Consumer Privacy Act Newest State Privacy Act Signed into Law
By Linn Foster Freedman on
The newest state data privacy law, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (the Act), was signed into law by Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox on March 24, 2022. This makes Utah the fifth state to pass its own privacy law instead of waiting for the federal government to enact a nationwide federal law.
There are other…
Privacy Tip #320 – 2021 Goes Down as Top Year for Fraud
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
2021 will go down in our minds as many things, including the year in which more people reported fraud and the highest dollar amount of fraud losses in history. Not a great statistic.
According to the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2021 (the Data Book), the FTC received 5.7 million reports from…
Walmart Drone Delivery Soars Ahead
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Coronavirus, Drones
This week, Walmart announced that it has invested in a drone service provider, DroneUp, to further its plans for drone delivery. Walmart President and CEO John Furner wrote in a statement, “Conducting drone deliveries at scale is within reach. DroneUp’s expertise, combined with our retail footprint and proven history of logistics innovation, puts us right…
Walmart’s COVID-19 Testing by Drone Pilot Program
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
If you live within a one and a half-mile radius of the east side of the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas in a single-family home, within a one-mile radius of the North Las Vegas Walmart store in a single-family home, or within a one-mile radius of the Cheektowaga, New York Walmart store, then you…
Vegas Casinos Are “Cash Only” After Suspected Ransomware Attack
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Two Las Vegas casinos’ networks were down over the past week, with posted signs saying “Cash Only” throughout the casinos after a suspected ransomware attack. Electronic slot machines were silent as the casinos reacted to the security incident.
The Nevada State Gaming Control Board was aware of the situation and disclosed that it is monitoring…
Knowledge is Power: California Attorney General Issues Advisory on the CCPA
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said last week that “knowledge is power, and in today’s world knowledge is derived from data. When it comes to your own data, you should be in control…” These words came in an Advisory highlighting California consumers’ rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The Advisory outlined several areas…
Privacy Tip #220 – Identity Theft Still in Top Three Frauds Reported to FTC
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
Three million fraud cases were reported to the FTC in 2018, and 444,602 of them involved identity theft. These reported cases (just think of how high the statistic would be if all cases were reported) amounts to the third most common type of fraud reported to the FTC.
According to The Motley Fool, of…