Tech crackdown
Meta admits Australians cannot opt out of ‘predatory’ AI data scrape
Senators are calling for stronger privacy laws to give Facebook users the ability to block the company from using their posts to train its AI models, as users can in the EU.
- by David Swan
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ALP
Government hammers big tech with barrage of new laws
Albanese has vowed to protect Australian sovereignty, while others in the government confirmed the plans for reforms on copyright, payments, content and online safety.
- by David Crowe and Paul Sakkal
Opinion
Elon Musk
‘Dark patterns’: European Commission is ticked off by Elon Musk’s X, again
The European Commission sees evidence of “motivated malicious actors” using X’s blue ticks to deceive users. Musk fires back, claiming that the EC offered his company “an illegal secret deal”.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Technology & democracy
Trump just shook up America’s war on TikTok
If there’s one thing that unites an otherwise bitterly divided Washington, it’s China. But Donald Trump has just stirred the pot.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Crime
How social media giants created a ‘paedophile paradise’
Australia used new laws to gain a world-first insight into how social media giants respond to child abuse material – and found a culture of “wilful blindness”
- by Jordan Baker
TikTok, YouTube could be targeted under Australia’s media code
The federal government is considering whether it should use landmark laws to force tech platforms such as YouTube and TikTok to negotiate with news outlets.
- by Zoe Samios and Nick Bonyhady
Chinese-Canadian tycoon Xiao Jianhua jailed for 13 years, fined $11.7 billion
The imprisonment of Xiao Jianhua brings to an end a long-running saga that has seen many of the tycoon’s business interests reined in since he was seized in Hong Kong more than five years ago.
- by Bloomberg News
Opinion
Inside China
Xi Jinping’s year of triumph has been derailed by turmoil
This wasn’t the 2022 that Xi Jinping had in mind.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
In trolls and tech giants, Morrison finds an ideal enemy
The Coalition party room has no shortage of MPs with first-hand or family experience of how toxic social media can be. Now the government is making cleaning up the internet part of its pitch to voters.
- by Nick Bonyhady and Lisa Visentin
Defamation defence offered to tech giants who help ‘unmask’ trolls
Social media companies would be able to avoid liability for the defamatory comments of users in Australia if they revealed the identities of anonymous trolls to complainants.
- by Michaela Whitbourn and Lisa Visentin
Scott Morrison makes big tech crackdown a re-election pitch
Scott Morrison talked up his track record in taking on the tech giants, saying it demonstrated his leadership abilities in a clear election campaign pitch.
- by Lisa Visentin