Tag: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

On the brink: Big Tech fight escalates

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Google’s incendiary threat to shut its internet search services in Australia is simply the latest expression – albeit the nuclear option – of a campaign against a proposed law...

Rod Sims rejects tech giants’ code ‘suggestions’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Competition watchdog boss Rod Sims has knocked back Facebook and Google’s suggested “fixes” for the media bargaining code and accused the tech giants of “brinkmanship” in threatening to withdraw...

ACCC’s Big Tech crusade: Facebook court action

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s competition watchdog has continued its crusade against big tech and is taking Facebook to court over the use of its VPN app to allegedly hoover up data from...

Stiglitz backs Australia’s Big Tech media code

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Former World Bank chief economist and Nobel laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz has thrown his support behind Australia’s proposed mandatory news bargaining code for big tech companies, but said the...

Media, Big Tech code by the end of the year

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government still plans to introduce legislation imposing a bargaining code between tech giants and media companies, with Google outlining its conditions for agreeing to such a concept. The...

‘Right to erasure’ considered in Privacy review

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government will consider introducing a direct right of action to enforce privacy obligations, a right to erasure and a statutory tort of privacy as part of a...

ACCC chief seeks tighter Big Tech regulation

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Competition tsar Rod Sims has pushed for further regulation of Big Tech, including strengthened merger rules and unfair practices prohibitions. Mr Sims, the chair of the Australian Competition and...

Govt must prepare for life after Big Tech: Report

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government needs to fast-track significant privacy reforms, put a cap on contracts handed to tech giants and invest in the startup sector in order to address an over-reliance...

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...