The European Commission announced their establishment of a 15-person expert group to consider the value and licensing practices for standard essential patents. ACT | The App Association President Morgan Reed offered the following statement in support of the creation of the expert group. "We welcome the creation of a European [...]
This year, ACT | The App Association turns the big 2-0. To commemorate two decades of service and advocacy, we take a walk down memory lane with the App Association staff who work tirelessly on the issues that impact and influence the developer community. These are the people responsible for [...]
Washington, D.C - This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the Senate Judiciary and House Energy and Finance Committees on his platform's recent data privacy scandal. Ahead of the hearings, ACT | The App Association President Morgan Reed issued the following statement cautioning against policies that may impose exhaustive [...]
ACT | The App Association President Morgan Reed issued the following statement in support of the inclusion of H.R. 4943/ S. 2383, the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Access to Data (CLOUD) Act, in the omnibus spending bill. "We applaud leadership in Congress for including the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data [...]
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Supreme Court Justices will hear oral arguments in the ongoing United States v. Microsoft data privacy case. The case explores whether U.S. law enforcement can compel Microsoft, a U.S. company, to provide communications content stored on a server in Ireland. In our interconnected, cloud-enabled word, [...]