As lawmakers continue to consider measures that would restrict the ability of app platforms to manage their ecosystems, ACT | The App Association remains concerned that such limitations would massively reduce marketplace trust. For many small app developers within our membership, this threat is existential - without possessing a well-known [...]
As lawmakers continue to debate the merits of passing comprehensive privacy legislation at the state level, something of a pattern is taking shape in legislative chambers around the country. While the turning of the legislative calendar each year seems to bring the potential for a massive overhaul of the privacy [...]
When President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address as President of the United States last week, topline priorities regarding the war in Ukraine, curbing inflation, and promoting elements of his domestic Build Back Better agenda understandably consumed much of the runtime. Yet those in the [...]
In 2021, ACT | The App Association launched its Amplify Diverse Talent Working Group, an effort seeking to elevate the contributions of diverse populations to the app economy, while at the same time highlighting the many issues that disproportionately cause harm to them and their communities. For our final event [...]
As we begin to look back and take stock of 2021, certainly one of the key themes in the technology policy space is the rapid convergence of the competition and privacy policy areas. Lawmakers in a handful of states, key committees in Congress, and policymakers around the world are taking [...]