Tag: Big Tech

Marise Payne outlines nation’s ‘red lines’ on tech

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Dangerous disinformation and “arbitrary incursions on liberties” are the technology red lines that Australia won’t allow to be crossed, according to Foreign Affairs minister Marise Payne. On Friday she...

Dominello urges multinationals to ‘buddy-up’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
NSW Customer Service minister Victor Dominello has urged multinational tech companies seeking access to the state’s extraordinary $2.1 billion Digital Restart Fund to “partner up” and help build local...

Australians among world’s most ‘data surveilled’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australians are the tenth most “data surveilled” citizens in the world, according to analysis of data requests by government authorities to Big Tech companies over the last eight years,...

Online Safety Bill is a way to move forward

Posted on   |  by Senator Andrew Bragg
It’s been widely said the tech companies are the railroads or oil companies of the 21st century. These companies wield enormous power. They have done much good, but they...

ACMA gets $4m for bargaining code oversight

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has allocated more than $4 million to the oversight of the big tech media bargaining code, despite no companies being designated under it yet. Communications Minister...