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‘Risk-based’ digital duty of care to be backed by massive fines

The Albanese government has rejected calls to make platform giants obtain licences and maintain a local presence for potential enforcement action, but will move on dozens of other recommendations...

Govt moves ahead with digital duty of care

14 November 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

Big Tech platforms will be legally required to manage harms to users before they occur under a new digital duty of care that moved to public consultation on Friday,...

Electoral watchdog seeks new powers to curb platform disinformation

16 October 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia’s election watchdog has urged lawmakers to give him more enforcement powers and set up legislated minimum standards for online platforms to respond to disinformation amid a “deterioration in...

‘Extraordinary’: Scams bill rammed through Senate

13 February 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

Banks, telcos and online platforms like Google and Facebook will be subject to new rules and $50 million penalties after federal Parliament passed world-first anti-scam laws on Thursday. But...

Experts back licensing regime for platform giants

6 February 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

Social media platforms and service providers like Meta and Google would need a licence to operate in Australia and be forced to fund an independent regulator under a radical...

Steep fines, mandatory safety rules needed to rein in tech giants

16 October 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant wants steep fines and mandatory safety by design rules to come from the Albanese government’s review of online safety laws, but says “recalcitrant players”...

Coalition to oppose misinformation laws

27 September 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

The federal opposition will vote against an Albanese government plan to curb misinformation through an empowered regulator, despite pledging a similar scheme when it was in government. It sets...

Social media giants are ‘vast surveillance’ operations

20 September 2024 | 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...

Watchdog lashes platforms’ ‘patchy’ misinformation data again

18 September 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

Misinformation reports produced by digital platform providers like Meta, Google and TikTok are plagued with data integrity issues for the fourth year running, according to the regulator that could soon...

Platforms’ scam code ‘falls short’ of $2.7b problem

26 July 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

Meta, Google, X and other tech giants on Friday committed to a new industry code to tackle online scams, getting in front of the regulator’s push for a new...

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‘Risk-based’ digital duty of care to be backed by massive fines

Govt moves ahead with digital duty of care

‘Extraordinary’: Scams bill rammed through Senate

Experts back licensing regime for platform giants

Steep fines, mandatory safety rules needed to rein in tech giants

Coalition to oppose misinformation laws

Social media giants are ‘vast surveillance’ operations

Watchdog lashes platforms’ ‘patchy’ misinformation data again

Platforms’ scam code ‘falls short’ of $2.7b problem

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