Our Advocacy Efforts: Protecting Innovation & Developers
Why Advocacy Matters
At a time when innovation is accelerating and government struggles to keep up, the policy decisions made today will profoundly affect the next generation of tech development.
For that reason, we encourage policies that enable developers to create robust, secure products that benefit consumers. Our advocacy focuses on three key areas:
Privacy, Data Use, and Digital Marketing
At the state and federal levels, privacy and data use regulations remain a priority for legislators. With more and more states passing their own data privacy laws, it has never been more important for Congress to pass a single national privacy law. The costs alone of complying with 50 different privacy laws will crush innovation.
We aim to find a common ground that protects consumers’ digital privacy and data without inhibiting innovation, overregulating data collection and use, or creating new legal risks for app publishers.
Artificial Intelligence
Encouraging AI’s role in business, our systems, and society should remain at the top of this Congress and the Trump administration’s priority lists. Overregulating the growing technology will make it unobtainable for the smaller companies and developers driving the innovation at this exciting time.
The stakes are high, and it’s vital that lawmakers understand the potential effects of stifling AI innovation and leaving it ungoverned, ultimately finding a balance between progress and safety.
Digital Markets
Today’s app ecosystem is possible because of digital platforms’ tremendous work and innovation. We live in a world where everyone carries a supercomputer in their pocket. Designing, creating, distributing, and building a successful app-based business has never been easier.
But legal and regulatory actions are threatening to change how the digital economy and app platforms operate. Proposed bills aim to limit app store’s abilties to make improvements to their platforms if they disadvantage a competitor, while federal lawsuits could fundamentally change the mobile app marketplace and make it harder, and more expensive to develop apps and grow.
We must ensure that the app ecosystem remains an encouraging space where small developers can leverage large platforms to easily create apps and succeed.
