Tech sector balks at unfair trading practice bill


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

An alliance of consumer groups and the regulator on Tuesday urged the Parliament to pass new laws to make unfair trading practices and certain dark patterns illegal, after business and tech groups called for significant re-wording and a year delay in penalties.

Advocates and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the absence of an unfair trading prohibition has left a gap in Australia’s consumer law that is doing …

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