The Association for Competitive Technology and the Family Online Safety Institute will host a panel discussion today to brief lawmakers, staff, and interested parties about the FTC's amended proposed changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). On August 1, the FTC released a supplementary notice of proposed rulemaking, [...]
The mobile app industry is a dynamic and fast growing marketplace. It has grown to $20 billion in only four years and is projected to top $100 billion by 2015.1 While the emergence of mobile apps has revolutionized the software industry, they are also having a profound impact on our [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday there was a post on TechCrunch discussing the Wall Street Journal story about content owners subsidizing mobile customers' AT&T data charges. In case you missed it, AT&T is proposing to let app makers or content owners pay for the data overage costs that customers incur with data-intensive app usage. [...]
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 [...]