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Innovators Network Foundation (INF) Announces Its First Class of Antitrust and Competition Law and Policy Fellows
Policymakers at all levels across the globe are focused on how competition policy interacts with—or should interact with—modern digital markets, characterized by the entry [...]
How the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710) Would Undermine App Stores
S. 2710 seeks to undo the current management structure for mobile app stores. The provisions track some of the complaints from the largest companies [...]
How the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992) Would Undermine App Stores
S. 2992 seeks to undo the current management structures of large, privately managed marketplaces, including software platforms (app store / operating system combinations). The [...]
2022 Annotated App Store Guidelines
As lawmakers continue to consider measures that would restrict the ability of app platforms to manage their ecosystems, ACT | The App Association remains [...]
Privacy and Antitrust Part 2: What’s Really at Stake if Congress Prohibits App Store Management?
Antitrust reform advocates argue strenuously that consumers will not lose privacy or security benefits if Congress prohibits mobile software platforms from being able to [...]
Antitrust and Privacy Part 1: The Market for Privacy on Mobile Platforms
It’s often said that privacy means different things to different people. But increasingly, policymakers, courts—and most importantly, consumers—are seeing privacy, in its shifting forms, [...]
ACT | The App Association congratulates the Honorable Laurie Locascio on her recent confirmation as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
ACT | The App Association congratulates the Honorable Laurie Locascio on her recent confirmation as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology [...]
Privacy Must Come First: Competition Without Privacy Protection is Bad for Consumers and Small Businesses
Today, ACT | The App Association released a statement from president Morgan Reed supporting the need for privacy controls: “Open and fair competition in [...]
