The global members of ACT | The App Association are innovative small businesses and enterprises changing the way we live, work, and play through apps and connected technology. Our members are leading the next generation of trailblazers working to solve problems and fill gaps across industries—from healthcare and education to [...]
Privacy and security are crucial components of a safer internet and a successful app economy. Our members use privacy by design to keep our information protected as our world lives, works, and plays through apps. Even the smallest app companies make a big impact, leading their communities and working tirelessly [...]
Back in March, when we wrote about the State of Children’s Privacy, we flagged California’s AB-2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC) as a key piece of legislation for developers to monitor. The AADC framework marks a significant departure from the sort of “collection standard” law (such as the Children’s [...]
Privacy nutrition labels are among the most innovative and trendiest user-oriented privacy tools rolled out by digital platforms in recent years, with both Apple and Google gradually integrating them into their app stores and many other players in the internet ecosystem following their lead. These labels (first conceptualized by Innovators [...]
President Joe Biden unveiled an Executive Order On Enhancing Safeguards For United States Signals Intelligence Activities to create the legal instruments necessary to effectuate the previously announced Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework with the European Commission. The framework essentially paves the path toward reinstating the transatlantic data sharing mechanism previously known [...]