What the recent Tea app breach teaches us about age verification, trust, and the cost of age verification mandates for developers and kids alike What happens when an app built for safety becomes the source of harm? The now-infamous app Tea, designed to help women protect themselves [...]
From the Vegas Strip to Capitol Hill, ACT | The App Association has spent the past several weeks doing what we do best: creating space for small tech companies to connect, be heard, and shape the future of the digital economy. As AI, privacy and safety, and platform policies [...]
ACT | The App Association’s members are at the forefront of innovation, leveraging technology to create meaningful solutions that drive positive change. Each week, we spotlight these trailblazing small businesses through our Member Monday series. This spring, our Member Monday features highlighted how our global small tech members are [...]
This summer, ACT | The App Association is bringing back our Developed Tour and heading across Europe! Developed: EU will be a six-week series of events focused on empowering tech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), building community, and connecting local innovation with global digital policy. From Rome to Brussels, [...]
For more than two decades, ACT | The App Association has been bringing our U.S.-based members together in Washington, D.C., for our Global App Economy Conference (GAEC), formerly known as AppCon. This annual event positions the real-world experiences of small and medium-sized tech companies at the center of the [...]