In September 2025, the UK Home Office reportedly served Apple with a technical capability notice (TCN) demanding the company build a backdoor into its cloud storage service for UK users. This order follows an earlier reported attempt to compel Apple to weaken its encrypted Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature. [...]
ACT's 2025 Holiday Gift Guide The holiday season is sneaking up fast. Almost as fast as those Black Friday promo emails piling up in your inbox. With the holiday shopping season buzz building, we pulled together a curated list of gifts for every kind of giver, from last-minute shoppers sending [...]
It seems like everyone is talking about the “AI bubble” right now. Whether we’re in one, whether it’s about to burst, or whether we’re only at the beginning of something much larger. From Brussels to London to Washington, the same headline keeps appearing, prompting the same question: what happens [...]
Part One of ACT | The App Association’s Two-Part Series: The ABCs and 1-2-3s of Age Verification and Compliance Lawmakers across the United States are introducing a wave of age verification and parental consent laws aimed at protecting kids online. While well-intentioned, these state-by-state approaches create a confusing and [...]
