ACT at the FTC: Why Blanket Age Verification Mandates Miss the Mark
As policymakers consider new online safety proposals, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently convened a workshop to examine the evolving landscape of age verification, estimation, and assurance tools, legislative proposals centered around their use, and the interplay between emerging age authentication frameworks and existing regulations, such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule. During the workshop, FTC attorneys moderated a wide-ranging discussion featuring industry and policy leaders: Graham Dufault, General Counsel, ACT | The App [...]
California’s Merger Proposals Could Set Back the Startup Economy by a Generation
On March 20, the California Law Revision Commission (CLRC) held a meeting to discuss draft proposals that would fundamentally reshape the state's approach to mergers and acquisitions. The proposals aim to establish a California-specific antitrust regime that departs from established federal law, an approach the proposal's own authors described as a "sea change" meant to be untethered from federal precedent. As the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) detailed in a follow-up letter submitted to the Commission this week, the [...]
ACT Statement on Competition and Markets Authority Decision on Business Software and Cloud Services
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) comments on the impact for startups and small businesses in yesterday’s announcement from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on business software and cloud services. ‘The decision by CMA not to designate Microsoft and AWS cloud services as having strategic market status and instead focus on a collaborative process with both to address the concerns of consumers and small businesses is a win for SMEs’, said Stephen Tulip, UK Country [...]