Tag: Tiktok

Australia won’t follow US in lifting govt TikTok ban

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
As the US government allows its employees to download TikTok again, Australia has locked in its ban with no plans to reconsider, leaving only limited approved use cases for...

Health firms breached Privacy Act with online tracking

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Two healthcare services breached privacy laws handing over “incredibly intimate details” of millions of people accessing their websites to Meta, TikTok and Google for years, the privacy commissioner has...

Britain the next to follow Australia on social media

Posted on   |  by Paul Sandle and Kate Holton
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would ban social media sites for the under-16s and impose restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms, in some of the most far-reaching...

Big Tech to face 2% levy unless they sign local news deals

Posted on   |  by Christine Chen and Byron Kaye
The Australian government has said that Meta, Alphabet’s Google and TikTok could face multimillion-dollar charges if they did not negotiate deals to pay local media outlets for news on their...

eSafety probes social media giants over cracks in teen ban

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has launched investigations into five social media platforms for suspected breaches of landmark laws designed to keep teens off their sites as it prepares to step...

Social media ban hits 4.7m teen accounts in first month

Posted on   |  by Byron Kaye
Social media companies have collectively deactivated nearly five million accounts belonging to Australian teenagers just a month after a world-first ban on under‑16s took effect, the country’s internet regulator said,...