Our Policy Priorities
Our policy priorities reflect the opportunities and challenges today’s small business app developers and IoT innovators face in the app ecosystem such as access to broadband, workforce development, and economic growth. We also contribute our thought leadership to broader issues affecting our members and consumers like data privacy, digital healthcare, and accessibility.
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Meta Takes its Texas Rodeo Global
Meta’s push for Texas’s new age-verification law—requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors—appears, at first, to be [...]
Parents and Kids Need More Resources and Flexibility, Not Games of Liability Hot Potato at the FTC
At the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent workshop, The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families, panelists raised important [...]
Bringing the SME Voice to Digital Standards: ACT | The App Association Joins ETSI
We are excited to announce that ACT | The App Association has officially joined the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). This marks an [...]
Will Disability Access be Undercut by Misguided Digital Platform Regulation?
In April 2025, the World Institute on Disability (WID) released a white paper on accessibility in the app economy space titled Accountability [...]
A Scroll Down Memory Lane: Spring 2025’s Member Mondays
ACT | The App Association’s members are at the forefront of innovation, leveraging technology to create meaningful solutions that drive positive change. Each [...]
To Win the AI Race, Congress Must Learn from Europe’s Missteps
America’s AI leadership wasn’t accidental. It came from businesses, small and large, solving problems using the tools available to them in a policy [...]
Advancing SEP Policy and Innovation Opportunity in India
This April, ACT | The App Association spent 10 days in India meeting with policymakers, regulators, and stakeholders to make the case for [...]
Into the Metaverse: The Money and Motivations Behind Meta’s App Store Gambit
In May 2025, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Representative John James (R-MI) introduced the App Store Accountability Act (ASAA), a bill that [...]
