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ACCC warning on loyalty data

The competition watchdog’s year-long inquiry into customer loyalty programs has reinforced recommendations from the ACCC’s earlier digital platforms inquiry for significant privacy and data security reforms. The Australian Competition...

Govt delays ACCC platforms response

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is quietly planning to delay responding to the competition watchdog’s landmark digital platforms inquiry until the new year, a move the opposition claims will damage the...

Big Tech in new ACCC squeeze

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
With government expected to formally respond to the ACCC’s landmark digital platforms inquiry in the coming weeks, pressure must be maintained on the world’s biggest tech companies to ensure...

Sims urges action on digital platforms

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Existing data protection laws have failed Australians and the government needs to get on the front foot to better protect privacy and curb the market dominance of the tech...

US antitrust move to follow ACCC

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Just weeks before the Australian government publicly releases the final report from the ACCC’s landmark tech platforms inquiry, the US government has opened its own review of the market...

5G fight: NBN is on its own

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s competition watchdog has a clear message to the NBN for its upcoming battle against 5G: You’re on your own. In a speech to the RadComms 2018 conference, ACCC...

ACCC sharpens data focus

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The ACCC has sharpened its focus on competition issues within the fast-emerging data economy and underscored a greater willingness to investigate inside the blackbox to better understand the specific...

Data protection lags data rights

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
The potential benefits of Australian government open data initiatives are being overshadowed by a lack of adequate protections and security, a new report has found. The Consumer Policy Research...

ACCC platforms inquiry heats up

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Australia’s “world-first” inquiry into the impact of digital platforms on the media is looking to address “one of the defining questions of our age”, the government’s competition tsar said....

ACCC muscles up to Facebook

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Australia’s competition and consumer watchdog will use its compulsory information gathering powers to obtain data from tech giants including Google and Facebook as part of its wide-ranging “world-first” inquiry...