Nation leading rental laws in Victoria are curbing data harvesting and uses exploitation, as renters in other states gets “bare minimum” privacy protections, according to a new report. Based...
Unfair trading practices, drip pricing and subscription traps will be banned in Australia within a year after Parliament passed landmark amendments to consumer law on Thursday and resisted tech...
A Brisbane real estate software firm has been ordered to stop exploiting dark patterns to collect unnecessary personal information from rental applicants, such as children’s names and the type...
Companies that make it difficult to cancel subscriptions face fines of up to $50 million under new laws that take aim at the digital tricks and traps costing Australians...
Australians are still losing time, money and data to deceptive online design practices nearly three years on from the regulator’s warning about the behaviour, with one expert finding the...
Amazon’s local policy leaders could not name a single use of generative AI by the company in Australia or what datasets it would be trained on, despite its global...