Tag: Meta

Meta to pay $50m over Cambridge Analytica data harvesting

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Meta will pay up to $50 million to users in Australia as part of its settlement with the privacy regulator over the tech giant’s Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal,...

How Australia’s Big Tech news ‘incentive’ will work

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Facebook, Google and TikTok parent companies will be charged penalties if they fail to strike new commercial agreements with news publishers under a scheme announced by the Albanese government...

Storm of protest over ‘rushed’ social media ban bill

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government has been roundly criticised for “rushing” the legislation for social media ban for under-16s through Parliament, with tech giants and digital rights groups denouncing the move....

Age verification tech trial results still six months away

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A trial of age verification technology will not deliver its findings to the federal government until six months after proposed legislation banning social media for under-16s is introduced to...

Breakthrough puts Trellis Data in the AI fast lane

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Local startup Trellis Data claims to have built the world’s fastest AI decoding technique, allowing text to be generated more than three times quicker on popular large language models....

World-first social media ban for under-16s

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia will move to ban social media for children under the age of 16, with the federal government expected to introduce world-first legislation to Parliament before the end of...

Rebuilding national competitive advantage

Posted on   |  by David McKeague
Australia has had a competitively thinning economy over the last 30 years. Australian corporates have reduced inhouse research and development – Telstra Research, Comalco Research, Wormald Research are just...

Social media giants are ‘vast surveillance’ operations

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Social media giants like Facebook and X are “vast surveillance” operations that collect, trade and hold troves of people’s data, the US consumer and competition watchdog has found after...

Meta dismisses AI scraping concerns as semantics

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Meta has defended its use of Australian users’ social media posts to train artificial intelligence without express consent, arguing that only publicly available data from its platforms is fed...