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Frollo backs regulator’s warning on CDR compliance

Australia’s largest accredited data recipient under the Consumer Data Right scheme has backed the regulator’s warning that it intends to take enforcement action to ensure compliance if the banks...

Competition watchdog to target online retailers and ‘dark patterns’

16 June 2022 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia’s consumer regulator will target online marketplaces and sellers trying to manipulate customers using “dark patterns” over the next 12 months under new chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb, who has called...

New ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb to focus on CDR and digital wallets

1 June 2022 | by Brandon How

New competition tsar Gina Cass-Gottlieb has outlined her priorities in the role, with a commitment to enforce the Consumer Data Right and protect consumer interests in the financial services...

Tech giants’ sharp pushback on proposed competition reform

11 May 2022 | by Denham Sadler

Sweeping reforms proposed by the Australian competition watchdog would “fundamentally change” the iPhone and App Store and lead to “significant consumer detriment”, Apple has said in a submission to...

Gig Guide: New ACCC chair begins term

27 March 2022 | by Brandon How

New Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb has begun her term as the first woman in the role, replacing Rod Sims after almost 11 years. Ms...

Consumer watchdog takes Meta to court over crypto ‘scams’

18 March 2022 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia’s competition and consumer regulator is taking technology giant Meta to court over allegedly misleading cryptocurrency “scam” advertisements that ran on its platforms. The ads included images of high-profile...

Consumer law rallying cry as Rod Sims leaves ACCC chair

16 March 2022 | by Brandon How

In his last speech as head of Australia’s competition watchdog, Rod Sims has implored economists to stop viewing consumer law as “the poor cousin of competition law” and called...

Watchdog pack to tackle digital platforms

11 March 2022 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia’s online, privacy, media, competition and consumer regulators have formed an alliance to share information and collaborate on how to best keep digital platform companies in check, amid growing...

Govt committee calls for clamp down on promotion of plant-based ‘meat’

28 February 2022 | by Joseph Brookes

A government-led Senate committee has called for restrictions, including mandatory regulation, on the marketing of plant-based meat products, due to the “appropriation” of meat terms and animal imagery by...

Big Tech antitrust reform on the ACCC agenda: Discussion paper

28 February 2022 | by Denham Sadler

Australia’s competition watchdog will push for a broad range of significant antitrust reforms aimed at curbing the market dominance of global Big Tech giants such as Google and Facebook....

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Frollo backs regulator’s warning on CDR compliance

Competition watchdog to target online retailers and ‘dark patterns’

New ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb to focus on CDR and digital wallets

Tech giants’ sharp pushback on proposed competition reform

Gig Guide: New ACCC chair begins term

Consumer watchdog takes Meta to court over crypto ‘scams’

Consumer law rallying cry as Rod Sims leaves ACCC chair

Watchdog pack to tackle digital platforms

Govt committee calls for clamp down on promotion of plant-based ‘meat’

Big Tech antitrust reform on the ACCC agenda: Discussion paper

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