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 [...]
ACT filed comments today to offer guidance to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's efforts to initiate a multistakeholder process to develop privacy codes of conduct. Initial indications by the agency that it would target apps before addressing industry-wide issues is of great concern to our organization. Targeting technology instead [...]
ACT applauds the Administration's efforts to address consumer privacy and its inclusion of the mobile apps community in the multi-stakeholder process. We were particularly pleased to note that the words "internet" and "online" do not appear in the proposed enumerated Bill of Rights. We say this not because we think [...]