Tag: DIGI

Subscription traps outlawed in unfair trading clampdown

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

Tech sector balks at unfair trading practice bill

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
An alliance of consumer groups and the regulator on Tuesday urged the Parliament to pass new laws to make unfair trading practices and certain dark patterns illegal, after business...

Search engines push back on ‘platform’ label in eSafety debate

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The Australian Information Industry Association has urged lawmakers to recognise that search engines are not social media platforms and should be regulated differently, as senators pressed industry groups on...

Big tech’s platform fact checking ‘stalling’ in Australia

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s communication regulator has called out “stalling” fact checking by platform giants after Meta and Google abandoned efforts to verify information with experts, and other companies stopped detailing their...

Platforms raised alarm on age assurance trial midway through

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s trial of age assurance technology used a “mystery shopping” company that tried to recruit its own staff to test options like facial and voice analysis, according to insiders’...

Big tech’s misinformation takedowns plummet in Australia

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
US tech giants’ removal of misinformation in Australia plummeted last year, new transparency data shows, with platforms like Facebook and YouTube taking down tens of thousands less posts and...

Social media ban: Platforms could be left to ‘infer’ age

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Social media platforms could use information they already hold about an individual to infer whether that user is under 16, avoiding the need to collect further identification or biometric...

‘Secretive and dishonest’ platforms cop a Senate spray

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Digital platform giants claim they would become the “sole arbiters of truth online” if the Albanese government’s misinformation laws pass but are facing strong push back from lawmakers for...