Tag: Digital Platform Inquiry

ACCC pushing for competition reform to manage Big Tech risk

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The expansion of Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft into emerging technologies and other interconnected products is increasing the risk of competition and consumer harm, according to the Australian...

Amazon Australia struggles to back boss’s AI claim

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

ACCC to probe Big Tech’s growing ‘web’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s competition watchdog will examine the growing “web of interconnected products and services” offered by Big Tech giants Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft in its latest digital platforms probe....

ACCC ‘closely’ monitors Amazon’s EU antitrust issues

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Amazon is offering to halt the online selling and marketing practices in Europe that regulators allege are anti-competitive, hoping to bring an end to a two-year investigation and avoid...

Misinformation remains a vexed policy problem

Posted on   |  by Jordan Guiao
A review of the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation – Australia’s answer to defence against misinformation online is currently underway. A year since being developed by...