Tag: Google

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...

Justice Kirby on why we must fight for privacy

Posted on   |  by Liam Tung
Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby recalls the one privacy principle he helped develop at the OECD in the late 1970s that was made redundant when Google emerged in...

Facebook threat to ban news content in Aust

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
After initially staying out of the fray and letting Google go on the offensive, social giant Facebook has now gone nuclear over the government plan to force it into...

Ed Husic warns on ACCC Google news plan

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The competition watchdog’s plan to force Google and Facebook to enter revenue sharing deals with news companies risked turning into a “bailout” for the likes of News Corp Australia,...

Policy uncertainty hurts local R&D: Google

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s poorly implemented tech-focused legislation and lack of consultation with industry is damaging investment in local R&D, according to Google Australia public policy manager Alex Lynch. Speaking...

ACCC’s Google news plan will not work

Posted on   |  by Prof Tom Smith and Prof Martina Linnenluecke
Requiring global tech giants Google and Facebook to pay for content to news organisations is misguided and simply won’t work no matter how you slice and dice this ‘world-first’...

ACCC fires back at Google ‘misinformation’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s competition watchdog has publicly rebuked search giant Google, accusing the company of spreading misinformation about a draft news media bargaining code. Google on Monday published an open letter...

Google goes to war over ad revenue

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Google has gone on the offensive against the Australian government’s plans to force it to enter into revenue-sharing agreements with media companies, issuing a series of threats over the...