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Google Found Guilty of Misleading Australian Customers on Data Collection The Australian Federal Court has found Google guilty of misleading customers about personal location data collection on android mobile devices in a world-first enforcement action by the country’s consumer watchdog. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been pursuing legal action against Google’s “misleading conduct” since Oct. 2019. “This is an important victory for consumers, especially...

Google misled Android users on data, Australian judge rules Moneycontrol 1 hour ago © Pranav Hegde Google misled Android users on data, Australian judge rules Google broke Australian law by misleading users about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices, a judge found Friday. The Federal Court decision was a partial win for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the nation’s fair trade watchdog, which has been prosecuting Google for broader alleged bre...

Review of tech disinformation code promised after Mayfair 101 scandal Save Share Big Tech’s voluntary disinformation code will be “carefully reviewed” come June, after the Mayfair 101 scandal raised serious concerns about the role Google’s advertising technology plays in misleading the public, according to the Morrison government. The voluntary Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation, which is managed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, would ...

News by David Swan Premium Content Subscriber only A massive data dump from Facebook in which the phone numbers, email addresses and full names of hundreds of millions of users leaked online is proof the tech giant cant be trusted with intimate user information, experts say. Personal data of more than 500 million Facebook users - including Australians - leaked online over the weekend, with users across 106 countries understood to be affected. The data inclu...

A plan presented to the Morrison government would hand the tech giants our most personal information, a move slammed by experts as ‘absurd’.

Australia can force tech giants to pay for news.

Australia’s competition boss Rod Sims says the federal government has emerged the victor in its battle with Facebook and Google

Coalition Against GMO Mosquitoes Launches New Website and Sends Letter to Biden Published 02-24-21 ISLAMORADA, Fla., February 24, 2021 /CSRwire/ -  The Coalition Against GMO Mosquitoes launches a new website to educate the nation and galvanize public opposition to genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes created by biotech corporation, Oxitec. The Coalition is also sending a letter by a concerned Florida Keys resident to President Biden urging an intervention in the impending experimental rele...

Facebook struck a deal with the Australian government on proposed legislation that would make digital giants pay for journalism.

Facebook’s cooperation is a major victory in Australia’s efforts to make two major gateways to the internet, Google and Facebook, pay for the journalism that they use — a faceoff that governments and tech companies the world over have watched closely.