June 21, 2006
Consultation Document on State Aid for Innovation
INTRODUCTION The Association for Competitive Technology ('ACT') is an international education and advocacy group for the technology industry. ACT represents nearly 3,000 software developers, systems integrators, IT [...]
Swiss Cheese Windows: Estimating Some Costs of the Nice State Remedy
Executive Summary A new wrinkle in the Microsoft antitrust trial is the separate track taken by nine states who have dissented from the settlement reached by the [...]
Online Privacy: What is its Place in the Larger Debate?
What is the "Larger Debate?" Consumers and businesses feel helpless and violated—by telemarketing calls, a flood of unsolicited e-mail (especially from Nigerian generals and pornographers), and the [...]
ACT Testimony on HR 4678
Honorable Edolphus Towns, Ranking Member Energy and Commerce Committee Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) submits the following views on H.R. [...]
Comments on the Online Personal Privacy Act
The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) submits the following comments on S.2201. Representing mostly small and mid-sized companies, ACT is the industry's strongest voice when it comes [...]
An Assessment of the Costs of Proposed Online Privacy Legislation
Executive Summary This study estimates the costs of various aspects of proposed online privacy legislation. Using what I believe to be fairly conservative assumptions, I find that [...]