Here at ACT | The App Association, we know that small businesses drive innovation and sit at the forefront of new and up-and-coming technologies. As we see technology companies playing a role in efforts to combat climate change, we’re once again seeing the companies that make up our community leading [...]
Back in March, when we wrote about the State of Children’s Privacy, we flagged California’s AB-2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC) as a key piece of legislation for developers to monitor. The AADC framework marks a significant departure from the sort of “collection standard” law (such as the Children’s [...]
Privacy nutrition labels are among the most innovative and trendiest user-oriented privacy tools rolled out by digital platforms in recent years, with both Apple and Google gradually integrating them into their app stores and many other players in the internet ecosystem following their lead. These labels (first conceptualized by Innovators [...]
President Joe Biden unveiled an Executive Order On Enhancing Safeguards For United States Signals Intelligence Activities to create the legal instruments necessary to effectuate the previously announced Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework with the European Commission. The framework essentially paves the path toward reinstating the transatlantic data sharing mechanism previously known [...]
For the last few years over at ACT | The App Association HQ, we’ve had a recurring bit about every year being the “year of privacy.” After earnestly saying it in 2019 and having our hopes dashed (partially at least), we kept repeating it to ourselves, half in jest, half [...]