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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Bringing the Joy Back to AI Innovation from CES 2026
“I hope we can bring the joy back to medicine.” That line, from Dr. Lucienne Ide, founder and CEO of Rimidi, an ACT [...]
Coding a Career: Real Talk from Detroit’s Apple Developer Academy
In a year of AI hype cycles, tech layoffs, and “learn to code” headlines, learners at the Apple Developer Academy in Detroit wanted [...]
A Scroll Down Membership Lane: December’s 2025 Membership Mondays
ACT | The App Association’s members drive the innovation that powers our digital world. Each month, through our Member Monday series, we spotlight [...]
Colorado’s Updated Privacy Rules Show How to Balance Online Safety with Innovation
In October 2025, the Colorado Department of Law finalized amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act rules, adopting new provisions to strengthen children’s privacy [...]
A Hearing That Put Global Digital Regulation on Trial
Earlier in the month, the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee addressed the spreading epidemic of foreign competition laws and their impact on U.S. [...]
Small Tech Founders Call for Fair H-1B Policy
ACTivists for Change: Members join forces in a letter to the White House, urging balanced, startup-friendly reforms While national conversations about the [...]
Behind What’s Shaping the Future of EU Digital Regulation
Innovation, Simplification, and Competitiveness As the European Commission’s new Digital Omnibus proposals land in Brussels, promising to ‘simplify’ AI, data, and digital rules, [...]
Small Tech Companies from Across the U.S. Call on White House to Reverse Course on H-1B Visa Fee
President Donald J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, District of Columbia 20003 Dear Mr. President: We are the [...]
