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 costly patchwork for startups and independent developers. And, as we have seen in other efforts to use age verification methods, the very [...]
Small business developers have long warned that certain competition proposals can unintentionally weaken privacy and security protections for users. This Congress, the issue is back: the App Store Freedom Act (ASFA) and the Open App Markets Act (OAMA). Both bills are pending in Congress, where proponents insist they will [...]
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 [...]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act has long provided a flexible consumer protection framework. The law generally empowers the FTC to challenge net-harmful conduct while giving trade practices that benefit consumers the green light. In tech markets, this tends to fit well because it typically stops the Commission from [...]
Developers keep users safe by building security-by-design with tools like encryption, authentication, and abuse-prevention protections that are the front line of protection. However, proposals currently being considered in Sweden and at the European Union level could threaten those tools and the critical protections startups and small and medium-sized enterprises [...]
