As Congress continues their antitrust legislation efforts by consulting CEOs of some of the largest corporations in the world, America’s small businesses are being left out of the conversation and left in the lurch. We have had concerns from day one about these bills and the unintended consequences our small [...]
Today, ACT | The App Association/Morning Consult released polling indicating that Americans living in 10 states strongly support efforts to protect small app developers’ growth while maintaining a trusted digital marketplace with consistent security standards applied to both large and small businesses. Polling captured adults’ (18+) opinions on security standards, [...]
On March 25, 2022, the United States and European Commission announced that they had reached an agreement on what is called the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (the Framework), which would create new legal protections for European Union personal data when it enters the United States. The agreement is the culmination [...]
In the wake of the public comment period on proposed revisions to standard-essential patent policy, which revealed overwhelming support for the changes, the Biden administration should finalize the draft statement, says Brian Scarpelli at ACT | The App Association. Read the Law360 article here.
S. 2710 seeks to undo the current management structure for mobile app stores. The provisions track some of the complaints from the largest companies selling digital-only goods and services on the app stores, which have an ultimate purpose of forcing app stores to distribute their products for free. As a [...]