Policy
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With the popularity of electric bicycles and scooters on the rise, here’s what state and local laws say about their use in Fort Worth, Colleyville, Texas Christian University and elsewhere. -
As tech titans invest billions into data centers and high-tech computer chips to fuel their AI ambitions, concerns are building over energy costs, especially in communities where data centers pop up.
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New Mexico schools are part of a nationwide push to curb phone use in classrooms, driven by teacher concerns about disruption and growing worries about record daily screen time.
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A tax advisory council has recommended adoption of a $32 million tax on Internet sales and the imposition of a $30 million sales tax on digital products including cloud-based applications, video games and more.
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Idaho Gov. Brad Little encouraged stakeholders to “get out of their silos” at the Western Governors’ Association workshop in Post Falls on Tuesday, specifically encouraging innovation for rural challenges.
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Internet access is an issue for rural communities throughout the country, and that the federal government has a bipartisan effort to expand state funding for rural broadband.
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While KentuckyWired has left a bad taste in the mouths of many state and community leaders, the Green River Area Development District's ConnectGRADD Internet initiative is starting to gain statewide attention.
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Critical of the way federal data on broadband Internet is currently collected, U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi will conduct a survey to collect data on constituents' Internet providers and to test their Internet speed.
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The position is part of the city’s Privacy First Policy, which was enacted in September, and aims to help govern the use of data by government and private companies. The application deadline is Jan. 3.
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During a last-minute hearing Friday, the Louisiana Deputy CIO Neal Underwood revealed that last week's ransomware attack was the largest one to impact the state, but he stopped short of calling the attack catastrophic.
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Expanding access to broadband services in rural areas — including large swaths of north central Idaho — should be a top priority for the state’s government, according to Gov. Brad Little’s broadband task force.
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State legislators in California plan to push for measures to require at least 72 hours of backup power at cell towers after phone and Internet service failed during widespread PG&E power outages.
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Although more than 9,800 U.S. agencies are on board with the nationwide public safety communications platform FirstNet, a debate persists about the very issue that FirstNet is designed to solve: interoperability.
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CentraCare Health has been awarded a grant of $234,648 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve its telehealth services by installing video equipment within 10 clinics throughout nine counties.
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Funding from Indiana's Next Level Broadband program will support a Mainstream Fiber Networks LLC project to provide broadband to about 2,084 unserved households and 389 unserved businesses in Floyd County.
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The Alpharetta City Council voted Monday to approve a deal with Ring, which sells Internet-connected doorbell cameras, to streamline how cops can get footage they say could help them solve crimes. The vote was unanimous.
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Minnesota received $47 million in the national Volkswagen court settlement, and officials are floating a plan to spend half that money to reduce air pollution and edge the state toward “a cleaner transportation future.”
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Napa scrapped plans for an advisory ballot measure asking residents where they stand on regulation of small-cell units, transmitters mounted to light posts and utility poles to fill wireless coverage gaps.
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Once Ring doorbell owners give law enforcement access to video captured by their cameras, police can keep the video as long as they like and share it at their discretion, a Ring executive told a U.S. senator.
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This year, the General Assembly passed HB 2178, calling for new, modern cybersecurity standards that must be met throughout the state before systems are allowed to access Virginia's election database.
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Officials revealed to local media Wednesday that a minor security slip that led to the recent cyberincident. The state, while having mostly recovered, will need a few days for all services to be up and running.
