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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

The Burr-Feinstein proposed encryption legislation would require tech companies to create a government backdoor to any secure application or connected device. It would also force private companies to provide "technical assistance" [...]