Yesterday, I attended Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s policy address on Internet Freedom at the Newseum in Washington, DC. I wanted to know from the Secretary what the State Department would do to help a U.S. tech company with a subsidiary in China whose employees are being taken to jail and whose equipment is being hauled away because the company refuses to give information about its users to the Chinese government.
Today, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith discussed the potential for cloud computing in the future and how government can help at the Brookings Institution. Smith suggested that there was a lot to be done to achieve a safe and open cloud for business and consumers, including the need to update privacy and transparency laws to better reflect our portable data world.
ACT RESPONDS TO FTC LAWSUIT AGAINST INTEL FTC IGNORES PLEAS FOR CAUTION AND FILES LATE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT Washington – Today, the Federal Trade Commission sued Intel Corp. charging that the company has abused its dominant position in the computer chip market. This lawsuit comes just days after ACT asked the [...]
ACT and 37 Small Tech Firms Urge FTC To Proceed with Caution on Intel ACT Submits to the FTC a New Analysis of Computer Chip Market and Letter from 37 Tech Firms Washington - The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) announced today that it is asking the Federal Trade Commission [...]
Today, the Obama administration announced an ambitious new directive for improving transparency and openness in government practices - and the role technology can play in improving access to information. ACT fully supports the administration's move to clarify the rules for agencies, and set up clear plans and timelines, and was please to see some of our "best practices" make it into the directive.