Last week, ACT | The App Association hosted the Connected Health Demo, drawing nearly 200 senior Congressional and agency staff to the Rayburn House Office Building foyer. Leading connected health companies from around the globe flew in for the event. These included AirStrip, Avizia, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Cisco, GE Care [...]
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Commissioner Julie Brill will resign next week to join Hogan Lovells as a partner and co-director of its privacy and cybersecurity practice. In response to this news, Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT | The App Association released the following statement: Commissioner Brill [...]
Today, the Department of Justice was set to pursue its case to force Apple to weaken the security protections on the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino attackers. But, hours before the scheduled hearing, the Department of Justice asked the court to vacate the hearing, saying it had found [...]
“We are happy to announce that Chelsea Thomas and David Maloney are joining the growing team at ACT | The App Association,” said executive director Morgan Reed. Chelsea Thomas, most recently of Apple’s government affairs team and former international trade advisor for the Senate Finance Committee, joins the organization as [...]
In its latest attack on data security, the DOJ tried to suggest that Apple has given the Chinese government backdoors into its products. Sadly for this storyline, it’s merely an attempt to blur lines around the encryption debate. Specifically, the government claims: … Apple produced a modified iPhone for sale [...]
