Many countries around the world are currently considering or implementing changes to their tax frameworks to make them fit for the digital age. In the European Union (EU) alone, nine Member States are currently advancing national approaches. On the EU level, the European Commission (EC) is also consulting stakeholders on [...]
Regular readers of this blog and listeners of ACT | The App Association’s podcast, Tech Swamp, are familiar with the DC rumblings around antitrust felt over the last Congress. Well, those rumblings are now reaching the magnitude of a minor earthquake; if the tremors before were only detectable on a [...]
For years now, ACT | The App Association has urged Congress to adopt a set of requirements that establishes net neutrality principles in statute. The debate came back to a head in 2017 as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) undid its classification of internet services as Title II, thus removing [...]
By Anna Bosch and Matt Schwartz On July 16, 2020, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, which provided a stable, streamlined, and inexpensive mechanism for the transatlantic flow of data between the two regions. The court cited concerns with U.S. surveillance law, which [...]
In 2019, the app economy contributed a total of €187 billion in direct and indirect revenue to the European Union’s (EU) economy and supported up to 1.7 million jobs in all sectors. In 2019, the app economy added 0.4 percent in value to the EU’s GDP in 2019. Mobile app [...]