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 [...]
Yesterday, AT&T announced that they would effectively end truly unlimited data plans by throttling all users who exceed 3 gigabytes per month of 3g or 5 gigabytes per month on 4G LTE. This comes just as app makers are facing the daunting reality that they will have to upgrade the [...]
Today we've seen major news coverage about the Administration's blog post on the new Privacy Bill of Rights, and the fact that one of the first areas to be covered is mobile apps. As we all know, mobile apps are developed by small companies, without armies of lawyers or privacy [...]
[Crossposted from CNET] So here are some basic facts, and some pretty clear suppositions: 1. Data use by mobile devices has exploded -spectrum is the transmission medium for the data explosion 2. The transmission of data over a band of spectrum is limited by several things, including power [...]