I appeared on NPR's Diane Rehm Show this morning to participate in an hourlong segment entitled, New Concerns Over Online Privacy. Our panel in the studio included Washington Post Tech Reporter Cecilia Kang and EPIC President Marc Rotenberg, and we were joined on the phone by Congressman Ed Markey, Co-Chair [...]
Today's survey by the FTC raised the same concerns that ACT has shared in our Congressional testimony on mobile app privacy. Many children's education app developers are unaware of existing privacy regulations and how they may be interpreted to prevent seemingly innocuous features. ACT has traveled across the country [...]
ACT is pleased that Apple has taken the appropriate steps to ensure that users have full control over their contact lists and address book. What is most important to app developers is the customers' confidence that the apps they use won't mislead them or abuse their trust. We depend on [...]
Our friends at TechNet and Rey Ramsey have published some interesting findings on the app economy. In a newly released study, TechNet found that the app marketplace has created 466,000 new jobs. TechNet came by this figure through a comprehensive analysis of want ads for app developers combined with a [...]
I spend my (work) life talking about mobile devices and mobile app developers. I have been pitched on more great app ideas than I can count, and nearly every week been blown away by ideas I never could have conceived. As part of this give and take with the [...]