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ACCC to probe Big Tech’s growing ‘web’

Australia’s competition watchdog will examine the growing “web of interconnected products and services” offered by Big Tech giants Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft in its latest digital platforms probe....

Big Tech inquiry eyes cloud, competition and the metaverse

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian lawmakers will consider a new regulator, rules for algorithms and a light touch approach to the metaverse while “mapping” Big Tech over the next year. The focus is...

ACCC wants another Big Tech crackdown

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s competition and consumer regulator has called for sweeping changes to the regulation of digital platforms after warning for years about anti-competitive behaviour and a lack of user protections...

Senate inquiry to probe Big Tech influence in Australia

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A new Senate inquiry will examine the nature and extent of the influence of foreign-owned Big Tech companies Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon have on the Australian market...

Big Tech at odds with governments over data localisation

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
State and territory governments and the national science agency are urging the federal government to explore data localisation requirements for both government and critical infrastructure providers, putting themselves at...

Towards a more mature and nuanced tech narrative

Posted on   |  by Jordan Guiao
On LinkedIn, Braden Wallake, the chief executive of the social media company HyperSocial, posted a photograph of himself crying. He had just fired two of his 17 employees. The...

Digital platform regulators set priorities for the next year

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Digital transparency, the examination of algorithms and their impact, and increased collaboration between agencies have been identified as 2022-23 priorities for the Digital Platform Regulators Forum, a collective of...

Memo to next govt: Technology reform is a core agenda item

Posted on   |  by Jordan Guiao
As the federal election looms, the final bursts of campaign fervor, news coverage and election chatter spreads nationally. For many people, this information is disseminated on online platforms and...