As the app trade association, ACT applauds today's agreement between California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the major mobile platform providers. This is a positive step to set clear guidelines for app makers while reassuring consumers that their privacy is secure. Representing over 4,000 small business app developers, ACT has [...]
I appeared on NPR's Diane Rehm Show this morning to participate in an hourlong segment entitled, New Concerns Over Online Privacy. Our panel in the studio included Washington Post Tech Reporter Cecilia Kang and EPIC President Marc Rotenberg, and we were joined on the phone by Congressman Ed Markey, Co-Chair [...]
ACT is pleased that Apple has taken the appropriate steps to ensure that users have full control over their contact lists and address book. What is most important to app developers is the customers' confidence that the apps they use won't mislead them or abuse their trust. We depend on [...]
Today I will be meeting with mobile app developers as the featured guest at today's Silicon Valley Apps for Kids meet up. Bill Martin, of SmarTots, will lead a discussion with me about the critical questions of COPPA and Analytics for Kid's Apps. COPPA is the Children's Online Privacy Protection [...]
Today ACT submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which is seeking guidance as it rewrites regulations affecting mobile app developers. Specifically, the FTC is updating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), enacted in 1998 to protect children online. With its draft revision under consideration, the FTC is [...]