Our Policy Priorities
Our policy priorities reflect the opportunities and challenges today’s small business app developers and IoT innovators face in the app ecosystem such as access to broadband, workforce development, and economic growth. We also contribute our thought leadership to broader issues affecting our members and consumers like data privacy, digital healthcare, and accessibility.
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State of Confusion: How a Patchwork of AI Laws Hurts Small Businesses and U.S. Competitiveness
Earlier this year, Congress considered including a temporary moratorium on state artificial intelligence (AI) laws in the federal reconciliation package, but the provision was [...]
ACT | App Association Releases Survey on The Extent of Transatlantic AI Gap and Impact of UK/EU Regulations
EU-style Tech Regulations Set Back UK and European Startups and SMEs from their US counterparts, New Survey Finds Today, ACT | The App Association [...]
Is the FTC Using Dark Patterns to Pursue Dark Patterns?
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act has long provided a flexible consumer protection framework. The law generally empowers the FTC to challenge net-harmful [...]
Labour Party Conference 2025: Recap
Our UK Country Manager, Stephen Tulip, shares his thoughts after attending the Labour Party Conference 2025 Party conference season is a fixture of the [...]
Bridging Technology Trends and Conversations in APEC Member Economies
Across the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region, member economies’ competition authorities are taking a fresh look at the role of digital platforms and [...]
A Scroll Down Membership Lane: September 2025’s Member Mondays
ACT | The App Association’s members drive the innovation that powers our digital world. Each month, through our Member Monday series, we spotlight [...]
Protecting Innovation in Solar: Why Standard-Essential Patent Licensing Reform Matters
At this year’s RE+ conference in Las Vegas, ACT | The App Association highlighted a challenge that solar technology innovators are only now beginning [...]
Inside the EU’s Digital Markets Act Workshops
A Developer Community Spotlight with Five Unique Startup Founders For startups, scaleups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the Digital Markets Act (DMA) [...]
