Tag: Big Tech

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...

Facebook tracks teenagers for alcohol, gambling

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Facebook is tracking Australian teenagers online and selling their profiles to alcohol, gambling and smoking advertisers, according to new research that warns Australia needs new regulation to protect kids...

Salesforce chief calls for truce on digital platforms

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian governments and tech platforms who are at loggerheads should take a step back and compromise, according to Salesforce Australia chief executive officer Pip Marlow, who says “stakeholder capitalism” has...

Govt backs off proposed Big Tech inquiry

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A Liberal Senator has withdrawn his attempt to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the influence of Big Tech in Australia on the same day the federal government passed its...