Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' move to ban all governments in his state from buying technology from hostile nations is just grandstanding, one researcher told StateScoop.

The state's new budget follows recommendations issued earlier this year by a 15-member task force.

Lawmakers could not agree in time whether Florida residents should be allowed to individually sue businesses for mishandling user data.

A new bill would give Floridians protections similar to those offered by California's landmark 2018 data privacy law.

A former Florida state official involved in managing its COVID-19 data dashboard said police raided her home and took her computers.

An alteration to Gov. Ron DeSantis' address was not a hack of Florida's voter database, but does show what can be done using publicly available information.

Rebekah Jones, who said she was taken off Florida's COVID-19 dashboard, "exhibited a repeated course of insubordination," according to the governor's office.

The Sunshine State, which has overhauled its technology agencies three times since 2005, is about to do it one more time.

The Agency for State Technology, created only in 2014, will cease to exist come July 1, when it is absorbed by the state Department of Management Services.