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 Reed, executive director of ACT | The App Association: "The App Association welcomes this effort by the Energy and Commerce [...]

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 U.S. Trade Representative, and industry experts on the biggest issues impacting the internet economy. They shared their stories in over 125 [...]

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 the tech industry,” said Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT | The App Association. “The proposed legislation would be ineffective [...]

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 overwhelming vote in the Judiciary Committee today reflects broad support in Congress and throughout the country to modernize our [...]

Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a tool for health app makers in coordination with Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In response, Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT | [...]