Last week, NPR's Morning Edition featured a story about a Queens school for children within the autism spectrum that use iPads in class and to play in their high school band. It's the type of story we're accustomed to hearing at ACT | The App Association. Most of the country first learned about the incredible impact apps have had educating children with autism from Leslie Stahl's Sixty Minutes segment on apps for autism in 2011.
Letter from ACT members to the Federal Trade Commission regarding Spring Privacy Series: Consumer Generated and Controlled Health Data, Project No. P145401 [pl_button type="info" link="http://actonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ACT-Comments-on-Health-Data-Final.pdf" target="blank"]Read Full Comments[/pl_button]
Letter from ACT members to the Federal Trade Commission regarding Mobile Security Project, Project No.P145408 [pl_button type="info" link="http://actonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ACT-Comments-to-the-FTC-on-Mobile-Security-Final.pdf" target="blank"]Read Full Comments[/pl_button]
ACT | The App Association has noted Senator Al Franken’s privacy concerns about fingerprint scanners on mobile devices. The Senator is concerned about the Samsung S5 phone which allows broad use of the fingerprint function, often without the use of a password. It can be used to access apps and [...]