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 [...]
On Friday we kicked off ACT’s app privacy events with a special Privacy boot camp for kids apps. In cooperation with Moms with Apps and Silicon Valley Apps for Kids, the event was held at the offices of Creativity, Inc., an innovative company that builds the software that goes into [...]
TRUSTe has announced a unified, open solution for mobile advertising privacy management. App developers can use the solution to address the evolving privacy compliance standards, growing consumer privacy concerns, and complicated technology requirements unique to the mobile ecosystem. The project is currently in beta and is expected to go live [...]