What the EU’s Digital Services Act Could Mean for Small Tech Businesses
After several rounds of public consultations, the European Commission finally released its long-awaited proposal for the Digital Services Act (DSA) on 16 December 2020 (see our statement here). Now that [...]
ACT | The App Association and Other Leading Groups Express Support for IEEE-SA’s Patent Policy in New Letter
ACT |The App Association joined 41 other orgs supporting IEEE-SA’s patent policy in a letter to the standards organization. The 2015 IEEE-SA policy change is the prime example of a [...]
Member Spotlight: Nebula Labs
During their last year of university in 2017, Dylan McKee and Nic Flynn, two computer scientists from Newcastle Upon Tyne launched their very own software house – Nebula Labs. The [...]
About-Face: The Year in Facial Recognition and Trends to Watch in 2021
As with so many other fields, 2020 bore witness to a dizzying series of developments within the facial recognition policy sphere. At ACT| the App Association, we did our best [...]
Brexit Briefing – What the UK’s Exit from the EU Means for Your Small Business
Four and a half years have passed since the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). On 24 December 2020, the two parties finally struck a last-minute [...]
Prop 24, CPRA, and CCPA 2.0: What Developers Need to Know
While scholars of the finer points of Californian privacy law will have immediately noticed the redundancy in the title of this post, an important clarification is in order for those [...]