ACT | The App Association has noted Senator Al Franken’s privacy concerns about fingerprint scanners on mobile devices. The Senator is concerned about the Samsung S5 phone which allows broad use of the fingerprint function, often without the use of a password. It can be used to access apps and [...]
ACT| The App Association executive director Morgan Reed issued the following statement in response to the FTC enforcement action against mobile app Snapchat. ACT has been closely monitoring FTC's enforcement of privacy violations in the mobile app ecosystem. It is good for the industry when consumers have confidence that their [...]
While the law allows courts to grant attorney fees to the winning party in a patent infringement case, many federal courts have opted not to award those fees. Courts have interpreted the standard for awarding fees, "exceptional circumstances" (35 U.S.C. §285), so high few, if any, cases have been able [...]
2014 brings a major milestone in tech. No, it’s not the year of the selfie (that was 2013) or the Year of the Dragon (actually, the Year of the Horse). We are celebrating the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. In honor of that major milestone, we thought we’d [...]
ACT | The App Association today brings 50 software companies from across the country to the nation's capital for its annual Washington Fly In. On Monday, participants will attend the ACT Conference on the Mobile Economy. On Tuesday they conduct over 125 meetings with Senators, Members of Congress, FTC Commissioners, [...]