App Makers Face a Hotline to Hardship
The effort to impose European-style regulation on app stores is seeing a late surge as sponsors are fast-tracking (or hotlining) the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710, OAMA) through the Senate. Under the Senate’s hotline procedure, legislation is circulated by email to every Senate office. If no office objects within the given timeframe, the bill passes the Senate by unanimous consent. In part because OAMA didn’t traverse the full legislative process, which would have involved a legislative hearing, Senate offices [...]
It’s Not Easy Being Green… Or Is It?
Here at ACT | The App Association, we know that small businesses drive innovation and sit at the forefront of new and up-and-coming technologies. As we see technology companies playing a role in efforts to combat climate change, we’re once again seeing the companies that make up our community leading the charge. The small business impact on the green and digital transition extend beyond energy and conservation transition initiatives. In addition to their contributions to green technology, our small business [...]
Developers Keep You Safe
Privacy and security are crucial components of a safer internet and a successful app economy. Our members use privacy by design to keep our information protected as our world lives, works, and plays through apps. Even the smallest app companies make a big impact, leading their communities and working tirelessly to drive innovation in today’s app economy. However, small businesses’ ability to lead depends substantially on whether their clients and customers can rely on them to protect the privacy and [...]
Fall ’22 Member Priorities, Pt. 2: Workforce Development
Our next installment of fall ’22 ACT | The App Association member company priorities spotlights an issue that is near and dear to the hearts of app companies: workforce development. In fact, some of our member companies, like CAVU, are blazing trails in their efforts to help aspiring developers make their own way through scalable agile technology. With more than half a million developer and computing jobs open in the United States, App Association members are taking the matter into [...]
Age-Appropriate Design – A New Era for Children’s Privacy in California (and Likely Elsewhere Too)
Back in March, when we wrote about the State of Children’s Privacy, we flagged California’s AB-2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC) as a key piece of legislation for developers to monitor. The AADC framework marks a significant departure from the sort of “collection standard” law (such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act [COPPA]) typically associated with the kids’ privacy arena. True to recent form, the California legislature moved incredibly quickly to pass the bill, which Governor Gavin Newsom [...]