On July 18, we hosted an event, “The Costs of Making Way for DMA,” where experts highlighted the implications for American national security, privacy, and economic growth if countries around the world follow Europe’s lead in regulating American online marketplaces. Non-discrimination rules in trade agreements are a cornerstone of continued [...]
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission implemented an adequacy decision regarding the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which is a self-certification program that seeks to ease the transfers of personal data from the EU to the United States and allow companies to streamline their compliance with EU data flow [...]
ACT | The App Association welcomes the European Commission’s adoption of an adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which President Biden and European Commission President von der Leyen announced in March 2022. This new framework will play a crucial role in ensuring the continued protection of data and [...]
Members of ACT | the App Association have been advocating for a national privacy framework for years, and as the national conversation around health data evolves, that framework becomes more important than ever. The App Association represents an ecosystem valued at approximately $1.8 trillion—which supports 6 million American jobs. All [...]
Today, Morgan Reed, president of ACT| The App Association, testified in front of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce on the privacy risks and benefits of activities related to the collection and processing of consumer data adjacent to the sector-specific federal privacy frameworks. [...]
