Georgia

A Georgia House bill looks to follow the lead of states like Mississippi and Virginia and require users of certain websites to submit identification — such as a driver's license — before accessing them.

A state Senate committee backed legislation — which has already passed the House — to suspend sales tax breaks on new data centers that lawmakers say aren’t giving the state financial return on its investment.

Deceptive video or audio that uses technology to impersonate candidates would be made illegal under a bill the Georgia House passed Thursday. The House voted 148-22 to approve the legislation.

Lawmakers in the state are rushing to stop malicious computer-generated spoofs ahead of the 2024 presidential election with legislation to criminalize deepfakes and deceptive robocalls.

As artificial intelligence integrate across almost all sectors, lawmakers are working to safeguard their constituents against potential biases and set ethical standards around the technology.

The 17-day trial questioning the security of Georgia’s Dominion voting machines ended Thursday, leaving the final decision in the hands of U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg.

Georgia lawmakers are trying to find ways to criminalize videos that use tech to impersonate candidates, warning that this presidential election could include misleading ads featuring Trump and Biden.

As Georgia introduces new legislation to address cyberbullying and regulate teenage social media use, other states with comparative laws are facing staunch legal challenges related to privacy.

A Fulton County agency approved Tuesday a $10.1 million tax break for a controversial data center expansion by the social media platform X that was already underway.

Disputes over voting machines and election security culminate in a federal trial this week, a test of whether Georgia’s election system is dangerously vulnerable to errors or hacks that could throw an election.

With a new year underway, Georgia Technology Authority CIO Shawnzia Thomas is focused on keeping the pace the agency set in 2023. New technologies and initiatives promise to enhance citizen services and how the state does business.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is asking legislators for $4.7 million to buy devices that would allow voters to confirm that the QR codes and printed text on ballots match before being scanned and counted.

The Georgia Technology Authority has appointed government technology veteran Subramanian Muniasamy to serve as chief technology officer. He brings public-sector IT experience from another Georgia state agency to the role.

Enrollment at Georgia's technical college system is up 10.6 percent from the same point a year ago, and several schools are on track for record enrollment highs after having dropped nearly 10 percent during the pandemic.

Utilities and cities — along with local companies and universities — are seeking to turn more of a growing abundance of solar energy into an around-the-clock source for power.

The technology eliminated a requirement for voters to fill out paper forms at early voting locations, instead allowing them to check in through tablets managed by poll workers.

Georgia senators pushed for answers about election security during a Senate Ethics Committee hearing this week, questioning why the state’s voting system won’t be upgraded until after the 2024 elections.

Effective Oct. 31, Dmitry Kagansky, chief technology officer for the Georgia Technology Authority, will end his two-year stint with the state, where he helped guide state systems toward the cloud.