At the end of last year, app developers and parents notched an important win when a federal district court in Texas issued an injunction against enforcement of the problematic App Store Accountability Act (ASAA). Then, Texas’s attorney general appealed the injunction. Just last week, three judges for the Fifth [...]
A few weeks ago, I traveled to Mountain View for my first ever in-person Google I/O experience. The presentations included live demonstrations and concrete examples illustrating how updates across a wide range of Google services will meaningfully benefit small businesses and consumers. The event was more than just glitz [...]
This week, software makers are gathering in Cupertino for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Especially interesting for parents and developers are the many updates to the parental control and kids’ safety features. The updates underscore how useful these parental control features have been for years and how they are [...]
Among the various Digital Markets Act (DMA) provisions the European Commission (Commission) is implementing, the “Interoperability” obligation is especially consequential for small business innovators. The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) has voiced concerns with unfettered open access mandates on platforms and operating systems, commenting on the associated implementation records. [...]
The European Commission's ongoing implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) has produced a flood of proposals threatening the very safeguards that keep digital marketplaces and operating systems secure. For ACT members, among the most alarming are measures that would gut the access management functions major operating systems rely [...]