Celebrating Data Privacy Day
ACT | The App Association is proud to celebrate Data Privacy Data – a day dedicated to promoting the protection of users’ privacy online. While we advocate for strong privacy protections everyday of the year, today we recognize those who have done exemplary work in this area, and identify places where we see need for improvement. To begin, there’s the outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Enacted in 1986, the law governing the privacy of online data was drafted before [...]
HHS pledges to work with The App Association to update HIPAA for mobile
ACT | The App Association is pleased to share Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell’s pledge to bring clarity to HIPAA for the mobile world. In her letter to Congress, Secretary Burwell committed to working with The App Association to make the regulatory environment better for mobile health companies. Secretary Burwell's pledge came as a response to Congressmen Tom Marino and Peter DeFazio, who outlined several steps HHS should take to update HIPAA guidance documents last fall. This followed outreach from The [...]
My Life in Apps: Event Planning Edition
Hi, I'm the new Director of Events for ACT | The App Association. Nice to meet you! I approach the world of tech a little differently than some of my colleagues. As I haven't been living and breathing this stuff every day for years, I was a bit of a novice when I started. Confession: I didn't actually have a Twitter account when I started here. That's right. I just wasn't quite convinced they my every thought would interest the [...]
Act | The App Association announces support for I-Squared Act of 2015
ACT | The App Association is proud to announce its support for the Immigration Innovation (I-Squared) Act of 2015 introduced by Senators Hatch, Klobuchar, Rubio, Coons, Flake, and Blumenthal. The bill would bring desperately needed reforms to the United States' immigration laws for high-skilled workers, particularly when it comes to education. This is a critical issue facing the app industry, as well as the larger tech community, and we look forward to working with the senators on this. The letter's text [...]
The App Association Guide to Keeping New Year’s Fitness Resolutions
So… How are those New Year’s resolutions holding up? Sticking to your fitness regimen? In case that’s proving a challenge, we’ve compiled our top picks for health and fitness to help you meet those goals (while keeping your sanity). The holidays are over and we’ve hit 2015. For many, that means fitness and weight loss resolutions to make up for holiday feasting. And while diets that rely on deprivation and sugar-free, food-free cleanses sound super reasonable, there’s a better option that requires [...]
App Association applauds Student Privacy Pledge
ACT | The App Association applauds the administration for supporting the Student Privacy Pledge endorsed by more than 75 companies and key platform leaders Microsoft and Apple. The Student Privacy Pledge is a commitment by education technology companies to provide a safe learning environment in our schools. Participating companies agree to not sell any data collected from schoolchildren through the twelfth grade. By signing the pledge, they are also prohibited from using student information for advertising or to build student profiles unless [...]