Today the Future Privacy Forum published the results of its app privacy study. We are encouraged by FPF's findings which show the self-regulatory efforts of the app industry are producing measurable improvement in consumer privacy transparency. ACT has spoken with thousands of developers through boot camps, developer conferences and workshops. [...]
Representing app developers, ACT's Executive Director Morgan Reed will be testifying today at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on New Technologies and Innovations in the Mobile and Online Space, and the Implications for Public Policy. You can follow the hearing through the Committee's webcast and read Mr. Reed's written testimony [...]
NTIA Administrator Larry Strickland gave a speech today before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in which he declared mobile apps to be the primary target for the administration's privacy bill of rights multistakeholder process. We are disappointed that the administration has singled out mobile apps in what it [...]
by Kominyetska ACT was active on both coasts this week: Member Outreach Director Sara Kloek and ACT President Jonathan Zuck met up with members at the Microsoft TechEd Conference in Orlando Florida, while I was attending Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) and joined many of our app-building members in celebrating creativity [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology last week visited Facebook's new Menlo Park headquarters. We were able to explore their new campus designed with an urban layout while checking out cool new tools like a touchpad directory in each building with GPS-linked scrolling Facebook profiles allowing employees to easily find each [...]