After three years, the Privacy Act Review commissioned under the Coalition government has been completed and the final report handed to Attorney General Mark Dreyfus. The Attorney General will...
Sweeping reforms proposed by the Australian competition watchdog would “fundamentally change” the iPhone and App Store and lead to “significant consumer detriment”, Apple has said in a submission to...
Australia’s competition regulator wants new powers to stop Google from being the default search service on nearly every phone and computer in the country, warning the tech giant’s 94...
A direct right of action for individuals subject to a privacy breach, a statutory tort of privacy and an end to the exemption for political parties are being considered...
Two years ago, competition tsar Rod Sims handed his landmark final report on digital platforms to the federal government. But it was a decision 18 months earlier which laid...
Big tech and business are warring with digital and civil rights groups over the need to introduce a right of direct action for data breaches as part of the...
Google has hit back at the government’s plan to force it to share ad revenue with local media companies, arguing it is doing these companies a favour by featuring...
The competition watchdog’s new $27 million digital platforms unit has been put straight to work, with two inquiries launched into some of the biggest tech companies in the world....
A significant review of the Privacy Act is “long overdue” but may be already out of date by the time it is finally completed in 2021, according to senior...
The competition watchdog gets an additional $27 million to fund a new unit to monitor Facebook and Google, while new codes of conduct will be developed and the Privacy...
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