Part Two of ACT’s Two-Part Resource: 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 costly patchwork for startups and independent [...]
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 people [...]
On 16 April 2026, the European Commission adopted its revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) and Technology Transfer Guidelines (Guidelines). For ACT’s members, these Guidelines could determine the ability to license some of the patented components at the heart of technical standards like 5G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth on [...]
This week we're starting a return to our official name, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), and moving away from the unofficial moniker “the App Association” that we’ve used as shorthand to describe our membership and our work. The world is experiencing a transformative surge in technological innovation from [...]
Right now, policymakers around the world are setting their 2026 agendas on the same core questions: how to protect consumers online, how to govern AI responsibly without stifling innovation, how to strengthen privacy and security, and how to drive economic growth. From Brussels to London to Washington, across the [...]