It is not lost on U.S. lawmakers that competition legislation intended to rein in “Big Tech” would have far-reaching effects on the economy. What they perhaps did not bargain for is the impact such legislation would have on consumer privacy and security—even national security. ACT | The App Association and [...]
On March 25, 2022, the United States and European Commission announced that they had reached an agreement on what is called the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (the Framework), which would create new legal protections for European Union personal data when it enters the United States. The agreement is the culmination [...]
S. 2710 seeks to undo the current management structure for mobile app stores. The provisions track some of the complaints from the largest companies selling digital-only goods and services on the app stores, which have an ultimate purpose of forcing app stores to distribute their products for free. As a [...]
S. 2992 seeks to undo the current management structures of large, privately managed marketplaces, including software platforms (app store / operating system combinations). The provisions seek to limit actions large platforms take that would advantage their own offerings or disadvantage other offerings. The central provisions of S. 2992 require open [...]
Antitrust reform advocates argue strenuously that consumers will not lose privacy or security benefits if Congress prohibits mobile software platforms from being able to remove malware and other bad actors from app stores. The bills they are pushing, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992) and the Open [...]