On Friday we kicked off ACT’s app privacy events with a special Privacy boot camp for kids apps. In cooperation with Moms with Apps and Silicon Valley Apps for Kids, the event was held at the offices of Creativity, Inc., an innovative company that builds the software that goes into [...]
This week, ACT kicks off a series of coast privacy education events for app developers. We will feature at a number of privacy conferences and host boot camps to help app makers identify best practices to meet consumers' privacy expectations. On Wednesday, ACT chairman and iOS developer, Mike Sax, will [...]
Many of our small business members are concerned by today's Department of Justice antitrust action against Apple and book publishers for purported e-book price fixing. While it is curious that the government would consider an antitrust case against a competitor with a market share far below dominance, it is [...]
ACT filed comments today to offer guidance to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's efforts to initiate a multistakeholder process to develop privacy codes of conduct. Initial indications by the agency that it would target apps before addressing industry-wide issues is of great concern to our organization. Targeting technology instead [...]
App developers are excited about the latest tablet release from Apple. We have created over two hundred thousand apps for the iPad which has proved to be an exceptional tool for entertainment, productivity, personal health, and early education. With 55 million iPads sold, and 25 billion iOS apps downloaded, it [...]