The effort to impose European-style regulation on app stores is seeing a late surge as sponsors are fast-tracking (or hotlining) the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710, OAMA) through the Senate. Under the Senate’s hotline procedure, legislation is circulated by email to every Senate office. If no office objects within [...]
Over the summer, Congress seriously considered some questionable bills that ACT |The App Association members opposed, prompting us to ask our members, “What should Congress be doing instead with the precious few legislative days remaining in 2022?” Just before members of the House and Senate reconvened for the remainder of [...]
Over the past five years, a lot has changed, but one thing that’s remained constant since we last wrote about it in 2017 is that there’s really no such thing as a “tech industry.” The exact contours or label of a given industry may sound trivial. But the assumption that [...]
Negotiators in Congress are within striking distance—but momentum is slowing—on a federal privacy law, which means now is the perfect time to address a burning question: how well do the major provisions of the bill match up with small app companies’ interests? For this, we analyze how the bill that [...]
With only a handful of legislative days left on the calendar, sponsors of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) and Open App Markets Act (OAMA) desperately seek a way around or through growing opposition to their bills. Even as Sen. John Cornyn, the chamber’s minority whip, said last [...]