It’s been a busy fall as elections loom and technology issues like privacy and AI have caught the public’s attention, for better or worse. Oh, and something about “peaches”, if I heard it right.
Read MoreWelcome to our first EU Policy Update! Bureaucrats and politicians have as much power over your business as you do. We’ve distilled everything you need to know about what they’re up to in the text below – worth a few minutes to avoid getting sideswiped!
Read MoreThe panel focused primarily on 5G, data localization, and how emerging technologies pose national security threats.
Read MoreThe EU is racing ahead on privacy, AI, and competition rules for digital players. Developers in the EU and US will be the first to fall if the two sides go it alone.
Read MoreFor the longest time, digital citizens have escaped the two great real-world certainties: death and taxes. Digital life is eternal as long as the power flows and the backup tapes are safe. Taxes follow the flow of money; where there’s no money, there’s nothing for the taxman to grasp.
Read MoreToday the Developers Alliance and CCIA Europe sent a letter to the European Parliament on the European Commission’s proposed “provisions on cross-border data flows and personal data protection in EU trade and investment agreements”.
Read MoreTech knows the future of business is digital, and that digital means global. Entrepreneurs and developers make concepts a reality, refine software, and launch new products all within the digital space. But what about when your customer base expands beyond your home country’s market, or your data enters the cloud? ill you even notice? How does your existing and new consumer data cross borders, and what regulations guide this expansion? What happens if you just do nothing? (For more on this, see our news item on the EU GDPR from a US perspective)
Read MoreOn Wednesday 18 October, the European Commission published a report supporting the continuation of the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement and recommending some improvements. The report concludes the negotiations of the data-transfer deal’s inaugural annual review, which the Alliance previously covered here.
Read MoreWhat the heck is Privacy Shield, and why should application and other software developers care? The answer, in part, is that developers everywhere are looking at a future where data is either free to flow or blocked at the border; circulating inside two completely disconnected clouds or in one. It’s important enough that policy heavyweights from the US and EU are taking the time to meet face to face this week in DC to discuss the future shape of the internet with (hopefully) or without (catastrophe) it.
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michela Palladino – Michela@AppAlliance.org BRUSSELS – Developers Alliance Director of European Policy and Government Relations, Michela Palladino, released the following statement regarding the European Commission’s Midterm Review of…
Read MoreThe European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy consists of 16 initiatives that will help create a consistent set of rules for digital matters across the EU’s 28 Member States.
Read MoreWashington, D.C. (February 2, 2016) – The following is a statement from Jake Ward, Application Developers Alliance President regarding the political agreement governing the transfer of date betweenthe European Union and the United States.
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