ACT Comments to JFTC Regarding MSCA Enforcement and Compliance Statements
A Scroll Down Membership Lane: February 2026’s Member Mondays
ACT members drive the innovation that powers our digital world. Each month, through our Member Monday series, we showcase these trailblazing small businesses and their cutting-edge achievements. Around the world, governments are redefining how curated online marketplaces (COMs) operate. In practice, rules targeting COMs can require platforms to open [...]
Congress’s App Store Bills Could Weaken Privacy Protections and Hurt Small Developers
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 [...]
Is the FTC Using Dark Patterns to Pursue Dark Patterns?
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 [...]
Encryption in the EU: What Startups Need to Know
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 [...]