Last week, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill and ACT’s Morgan Reed took the stage at The Hill’s Tech in Policy event to discuss mobile health. While Morgan urged a focus on the behavior of entities, Commissioner Brill staked out her position that both the collection and use of health data by third-party apps should [...]
Tech in Policy: Innovation Impacting Washington ACT | The App Association Executive Director Morgan Reed and FTC Commissioner Julie Brill will discuss health and education policy at The Hill’s Tech in Policy event on July 23rd at the Newseum. Commissioner Brill is leading the FTC’s efforts to review consumer [...]
ACT| The App Association executive director Morgan Reed issued the following statement in response to the FTC enforcement action against mobile app Snapchat. ACT has been closely monitoring FTC's enforcement of privacy violations in the mobile app ecosystem. It is good for the industry when consumers have confidence that their [...]
FTC Settles with App Makers Credit Karma, Fandango for Deceptive Trade Practices Late last week, the US Federal Trade Commission settled with Credit Karma, Inc. and Fandango, LLC. for deceptive trade practices related to security on their mobile apps. Both companies overrode mobile operating system default settings. iOS and Google [...]
President of the Association for Competitive Technology, Jonathan Zuck, issued the following statement on the Intel-FTC settlement announced today. This agreement brings to a close the Commission’s case against Intel regarding alleged anti-competitive trade practices. As part of the settlement, Intel agreed to modify its rebate program and licensing agreements. [...]