From payments to health, state governments handle critical data. As AI reshapes public services, clean, optimized data is essential for effective systems. State data leaders drive this through ...

Brad is a contributor to StateTech. He’s covered technology since 1991, when he first got his start in the industry. Oregon Data Center Services handles daily backups for roughly 4,000 state servers, ...

If you get a call from John Eakins at the Delaware Attorney General's office, you've already filed a data breach notice with the state, so you know there's a problem. What information security teams ...

Stay on top of the latest news and updates when it comes to consumer data privacy legislation in the US and abroad. Editor's note: This article, originally published in 2023, was updated March 3, 2025 ...

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States are stepping up their efforts to protect the privacy of consumer data, and the trend is adding to banks' compliance challenges as stewards of vast amounts of personal information. Processing ...

A new tool from North Dakota, the State Data Hub, aims to help officials leverage data to better support residents. The state’s new data hub aims to serve as a centralized place for leaders to share ...

Legislation from Texas to Georgia could impose fees and rules to safeguard the electric grid and keep a lid on household utility bills. Legislators in states where the U.S. data center boom is about ...

The Democratic Party is losing its edge over the GOP in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, with Democrats changing their party affiliation at more than twice the rate of Republicans, according ...

Because accounting firms provide tax compliance and advisory services, they must retain their clients’ Social Security numbers (SSNs). That information is valuable to external hackers, who can sell it ...