As the leading voice for small business innovators, ACT | The App Association works hard to bring the small business voice to legal and policy discussions about standard-essential patents (SEPs). Our goal is to create an environment that allows small businesses to contribute to and utilize standardized technologies. A balanced [...]
2007 was a tough year for Vincent Keunen and his family. Only three months after he was diagnosed with leukemia, doctors discovered that his 10-year-old son Pierre was suffering from an extremely rare form of cancer called Ewing’s sarcoma. Although Pierre lost part of his right leg, and Vincent still [...]
Recently, incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the full line-up for her new team. Over the last five years, the era of limited government interference for big tech in Europe came to an end as competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager began to implement an increasingly cautious and punitive [...]
Data protection and the right to privacy are two given rights enshrined within the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a first attempt to ensure European citizens’ data is handled and processed in line with these fundamental rights. Two proposed regulations [...]
For many ACT | The App Association members, the United Kingdom (UK) is a natural market to look to for growth. Many of these App Association members in the United States doing business in the UK and the European Union (EU) utilize the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, a framework enabling U.S. [...]