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About Association for Competitive Technology

ACT is a global trade association for small and medium-sized technology companies. Our members are entrepreneurs, innovators, and independent developers within the global app ecosystem that engage with verticals across every industry. We work with our members to promote a policy environment that rewards and inspires innovation while providing resources that help them raise capital, create jobs, and continue to build incredible technology.

ACT | The App Association Welcomes President Biden’s Executive Order to Implement the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

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 [...]

By Association for Competitive Technology|2022-10-12T13:51:12-04:00October 12th, 2022|Blog, Privacy|

A Federal Privacy Law is Closer Than Ever

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 [...]

By Association for Competitive Technology|2023-03-24T11:14:33-04:00July 7th, 2022|Privacy|

Survey Says: IP is Essential to Innovation

ACT | The App Association members compete and innovate across the consumer and enterprise landscapes and invest heavily in their intellectual property (IP). Not only because it is the lifeblood of their products and our industry at large, but also because it represents their innovative drive, hard work, and dedication [...]

By Association for Competitive Technology|2022-06-23T09:33:43-04:00June 21st, 2022|Innovation and IP|

Facebook Says the Quiet Part Loud: Competition Policy Should Help Them Surveil Users

As Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) continues to seek supporters for her so-called platform antitrust bills, including by offering largely symbolic “revisions” (we remain unconvinced), some unlikely (though not entirely unexpected) allies are emerging from the woodwork. Though Senator Klobuchar often claims that the purpose of the bills is to knock [...]

By Association for Competitive Technology|2022-05-31T16:29:29-04:00May 31st, 2022|Blog, Competition|

How FinTech Apps Advance Financial Literacy in a Safe Environment

We often say that there is no such thing as a “tech industry” because, in our experience, app and connected device companies are solving problems in virtually every industry. Some are better positioning bars and restaurants to weather the global pandemic; others are revolutionizing agriculture by monitoring cattle and preserving [...]

By Graham Dufault, Association for Competitive Technology|2022-05-30T20:53:10-04:00May 31st, 2022|Blog|