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ACCC zeroes in on construction sector data

The Australian competition watchdog is “prioritising” investigation of the construction sector amid concerns that large software providers are charging exorbitant rates to transfer data to other providers and maintain...

Privacy office is still ‘severely underfunded’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s regulator for privacy and freedom of information missed all but one of its performance goals in the last year, leading to concerns the agency is “severely underfunded” and...

Govt cut ABC and SBS from tech news code: Sims

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
It was the government’s decision to exclude the ABC and SBS from the news content bargaining code with Google and Facebook rather than the competition watchdog which designed the...

News ‘uneconomic’ under govt plan: Facebook

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
It would be uneconomical for Facebook to continue to allow news content on its platform in Australia if government goes ahead with its planned bargaining code, and publishers should...

Facebook threat to ban news content in Aust

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
After initially staying out of the fray and letting Google go on the offensive, social giant Facebook has now gone nuclear over the government plan to force it into...

Ed Husic warns on ACCC Google news plan

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The competition watchdog’s plan to force Google and Facebook to enter revenue sharing deals with news companies risked turning into a “bailout” for the likes of News Corp Australia,...

ACCC’s Google news plan will not work

Posted on   |  by Prof Tom Smith and Prof Martina Linnenluecke
Requiring global tech giants Google and Facebook to pay for content to news organisations is misguided and simply won’t work no matter how you slice and dice this ‘world-first’...

ACCC fires back at Google ‘misinformation’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s competition watchdog has publicly rebuked search giant Google, accusing the company of spreading misinformation about a draft news media bargaining code. Google on Monday published an open letter...

Google goes to war over ad revenue

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Google has gone on the offensive against the Australian government’s plans to force it to enter into revenue-sharing agreements with media companies, issuing a series of threats over the...

Open banking’s majestically slow start

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s Consumer Data Right scheme has received a further $20 million after the opening banking regime’s slow start this month, with only one FinTech signed up as a data...