Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a new report entitled “Mobile Apps for Kids” that highlighted a persistent privacy transparency gap on mobile apps for children. During their press conference, the FTC highlighted the Association for Competitive Technology's education and transparency efforts as "promising." In response to the report, [...]
Today we launched the App Privacy Icons - the newest feature of our App Trust Project. These icons are part of a broad campaign to provide developers with resources to demonstrate easy-to-understand transparency about the privacy settings and features of their apps. In the increasingly competitive world of mobile apps, [...]
"The FTC believes the world would be a better place if we spent $250 million more on lawyers and $250 million less on developing educational apps and content for kids.”
"The FTC believes the world would be a better place if we spent $250 million more on lawyers and $250 million less on developing educational apps and content for kids."
The Association for Competitive Technology is launching a new developer resource, the ACT App Trust Project. This is a community-led effort to create new solutions and best practices for building trust with your customers. We’re looking for developers, designers, UI experts, and even some policy and legal types to join [...]