On July 24, 2018, the App Association's Graham Dufault and Brian Scarpelli presented on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the Merchant Advisory Group (https://www.merchantadvisorygroup.org/home), an organization representing over 130 of the largest U.S. merchants which account for over $3.3 Trillion in annual sales at over 900,000 locations across [...]
For more than a decade, Congress has tried to address the rampant occurrences of data breaches. Since the ChoicePoint breach in 2005, the House and Senate have introduced roughly 50 different pieces of legislation related to data security. None of them have been enacted into law. The reasons for this [...]
During AppCon, ACT | The App Association’s annual fly-in, 50 App Association members stormed Capitol Hill to deliver a strong message that Congress must update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The ambiguity in current law, enacted in 1986, troubles App Association members, all of whom are small- and medium-sized [...]
A simple flaw in federal law has led to a series of setbacks for both U.S. companies and law enforcement. Believe it or not, the law is not settled on whether or how U.S. law enforcement can access data stored overseas by a U.S. company. The answer depends on whom [...]
Last October, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reversed two decades of effective online privacy regulation when it finalized a new set of privacy rules. The rule was adopted by a 3-2 vote, with the two Republican commissioners dissenting strenuously. Both sides of this debate want the same thing: effective privacy [...]