Contact: Chris Grimm — cgrimm@appdevelopersalliance.org Washington, DC — Developers Alliance President and CEO Bruce Gustafson released the following statement regarding Joseph Simons’ and Rohit Chopra’s nomination to the Federal Trade…
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 MoreFrom the desk of Bruce Gustafson, President & CEO of the Alliance: This is an essay on Encryption. It is also an essay on the People’s right to secure their property, especially where the Government is unable to provide security on the People’s behalf. Most importantly, this is not an essay about privacy. Let me explain.
Read MoreApp entrepreneurship and the related business impacts are not a prerogative of Nordic countries alone. The app economy presents a potential engine of growth for all European economies. However, the roundtable addressed concerns for the app economy’s long term growth, such as regulatory measures increasing fragmentation and hurting developers that can now build apps that run seamlessly across thousands of different devices.
Read MoreWhile that’s a flippant analogy, that little preamble looks a lot like what some political leaders are doing to the internet. While social media sites continue to ramp up their efforts to combat extremism online, policy makers are threatening steep fines if internet companies don’t move at unrealistic speeds to help solve a problem which politicians are actually responsible for.
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 MoreThe negotiations on the ePrivacy Regulation are in full swing. In order to respect the ambitious timeline proposed by the Commission, the European Parliament is already in an advanced stage of the internal discussion and the Council is getting ready to further move forward the dossier.
Read MoreContact: Michela Palladino – Michela@AppAlliance.org Developers Alliance Letter to Members of the European Parliament on the ePrivacy Regulation BRUSSELS – This morning, the Developers Alliance issued the following letter to…
Read MoreOn 27 June, the Developers Alliance organized a Tech Policy Dialogue on “The Next Challenges for the EU Mobile Economy” in Brussels. The session brought together representatives from the EU institutions and the industry to explore the state of competition in Europe and discuss the role of government in the app marketplace.
Read MoreContact: Chris Grimm – cgrimm@appdevelopersalliance.org Statement from the Developers Alliance on the House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Hearing on the TC Heartland Decision Washington, D.C. – Below…
Read MoreOn Friday 8 June, Copenhagen Economics unveiled its latest study, co-commissioned by the Developers Alliance, on “Jobs in Apps: Mobile Economy in the Nordics. A Catalyst for Economic Growth”.
The study was presented at the IT University of Copenhagen to a room full of tech entrepreneurs, students, developers, and policy-makers.
Read MoreContact: Michela Palladino – Michela@AppAlliance.org Statement from the Developers Alliance on the Council General Approach concerning the Proposal on the Directive on the supply of Digital Content BRUSSELS – Developers…
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