Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has issued mandatory transparency notices to six of the biggest digital platforms, compelling them to share details about how they mitigate access to terror and violent...
Search engines like Google and Bing will face penalties or injunctions for failing to take action against access to illegal and harmful content from Tuesday with the arrival of...
Tech giants and privacy groups have rallied against a proposal to force companies to scan cloud and messaging services for illegal and harmful content in Australia, arguing for changes...
Australia’s communications regulator is developing a new set of metrics to boost visibility of the actions social media giants like Meta and TikTok are taking to combat harmful misinformation...
Chromebook laptops will be assembled in Australia for the first time under a new deal between Google and Adelaide-based gaming PC manufacturer Allied Corporation to supply the computers to...
Australia’s competition watchdog will be handed new powers to request information from digital platforms that could extend to secret commercial deals with news businesses under planned changes to the...
A digital platforms coordination body should be created by the federal government to address competition concerns presented by Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, a...
Professional associations covering artists, authors and publishers have hit out at calls by big tech firms for Australia to water down its copyright law, and to allow for cheap...
The federal government will spend almost $80 million connecting smaller Pacific Island nations to a new trans-Pacific subsea cable to be be built by Google between Australia and the...
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has fined X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, more than $600,000 for failing to answer questions on the steps it is taking to...