Small Businesses Make it Big in the App Economy
The first week of May is one of our favorites of the year – National Small Business Week! This week always provides a great opportunity to talk about the little guys [...]
New Bills Aim to Modernize FTC
Today, The House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced a series of bills intended to help the FTC better engage with today’s rapidly evolving technologies. The following statement is from Morgan [...]
AppCon attendees make case for CS education in Washington
This week, ACT | The App Association member companies came to Washington, D.C. for AppCon – our annual conference on the app economy. For three days, attendees heard from Congressional leaders, the [...]
Americans Strongly Support Encryption and Data Security
Tomorrow morning, the increasingly heated public discourse over encryption and law enforcement access will continue in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. As this debate moves into the post-San Bernardino [...]
Burr-Feinstein backdoor bill would strangle app industry
Today, Senators Burr and Feinstein released a draft bill requiring tech companies to create a government backdoor to every secure application or connected device. “The Burr-Feinstein bill makes broad, worrisome presumptions about [...]
Email Privacy Act passes House Judiciary Committee
Today, the bipartisan Email Privacy Act passed the House Judiciary Committee by unanimous vote. In response, Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT | The App Association released the following statement: [...]