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Govt cut ABC and SBS from tech news code: Sims

It was the government’s decision to exclude the ABC and SBS from the news content bargaining code with Google and Facebook rather than the competition watchdog which designed the...

Justice Kirby on why we must fight for privacy

8 September 2020 | by Liam Tung

Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby recalls the one privacy principle he helped develop at the OECD in the late 1970s that was made redundant when Google emerged in...

Facebook threat to ban news content in Aust

1 September 2020 | by Denham Sadler

After initially staying out of the fray and letting Google go on the offensive, social giant Facebook has now gone nuclear over the government plan to force it into...

Ed Husic warns on ACCC Google news plan

26 August 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The competition watchdog’s plan to force Google and Facebook to enter revenue sharing deals with news companies risked turning into a “bailout” for the likes of News Corp Australia,...

Policy uncertainty hurts local R&D: Google

19 August 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The federal government’s poorly implemented tech-focused legislation and lack of consultation with industry is damaging investment in local R&D, according to Google Australia public policy manager Alex Lynch. Speaking...

ACCC’s Google news plan will not work

18 August 2020 | by Prof Tom Smith and Prof Martina Linnenluecke

Requiring global tech giants Google and Facebook to pay for content to news organisations is misguided and simply won’t work no matter how you slice and dice this ‘world-first’...

ACCC fires back at Google ‘misinformation’

18 August 2020 | by James Riley

Australia’s competition watchdog has publicly rebuked search giant Google, accusing the company of spreading misinformation about a draft news media bargaining code. Google on Monday published an open letter...

Google goes to war over ad revenue

17 August 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Google has gone on the offensive against the Australian government’s plans to force it to enter into revenue-sharing agreements with media companies, issuing a series of threats over the...

Govt code forces tech giants to pay for news

31 July 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Google and Facebook will face forced arbitration and a $10 million fine if they fail to reach an agreement on revenue-sharing with media companies within three months, under a...

ACCC opens new Google court fight

27 July 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The ACCC is taking Google to court again, this time over its expanded collection and use of personal information for targeted advertising, as the competition watchdog’s crusade against the...

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