Australian regulator sues Google over anti-competitive Search dealsThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Google Asia Pacific reached "understandings" with Telstra and Optus between ...
18 Aug, 2025, 07.13 AM IST
Australia to bring anti-scam law targeting internet giants this year, regulator saysThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the treasury department are consulting internet, banking and telecommunicatio...
12 Jul, 2024, 10.21 AM IST
Australian court fines Airbnb $10 million for misleading accommodation pricingBetween January 2018 and August 2021, Airbnb Ireland, which operates in Australia, admitted that it misled consumers by displaying prices u...
20 Dec, 2023, 12.21 PM IST
Australia's competition watchdog puts data brokers on radarThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will consider products and services supplied by major data brokers including Orac...
10 Jul, 2023, 07.53 AM IST
Australia regulator to probe social media influencers for false endorsementsThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it would look at more than 100 influencers after several consumers informed ...
27 Jan, 2023, 10.52 AM IST
- Tech threat down under
Data from the Public Interest Journalism Initiative shows that 157 Australian newsrooms have closed temporarily or for good since early 201...
27 Dec, 2022, 12.25 AM IST
Fitbit sued in Australia for misleading consumers on faulty devicesThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said between May 2020 and February 2022, Fitbit claimed consumers will not be ent...
24 Oct, 2022, 06.35 PM IST
Australian regulator sues Airbnb for allegedly misleading customers on pricingBetween January, 2018 and August, 2021, the U.S.-based vacation rental company misled consumers in Australia by displaying prices for accom...
08 Jun, 2022, 07.12 AM IST
Australian regulator sues Uber for misleading fares, seeks $19 million penaltyThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Tuesday said Uber admitted that between December 2017 and September 2021 it wa...
27 Apr, 2022, 08.28 AM IST
Australian watchdog sues Facebook-owner Meta over fake crypto adsMeta said any ads that scammed people out of money or misled users violated its policies and the company uses technology to detect and bloc...
18 Mar, 2022, 12.53 PM IST
Australian watchdog sues Facebook-owner Meta over scam advertisementsThe lawsuit filed in the Federal Court also alleges Facebook "aided and abetted or was knowingly concerned in false or misleading conduct a...
18 Mar, 2022, 07.46 AM IST
Australia plans to make Google offer alternative search engines on smartphonesThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) also wants to limit Google's ability to pay Apple Inc to have its search engine i...
28 Oct, 2021, 02.52 PM IST
Google misled customers over data collection: Australia's competition regulatorThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said the court found Google wrongly claimed it could only collect information from the l...
16 Apr, 2021, 10.48 AM IST
Australia sues Facebook over user data, echoing U.S. antitrust caseThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it was seeking an unspecified fine from Facebook for promoting a virtual pri...
16 Dec, 2020, 10.13 PM IST
Australian regulator sues Google for misleading consumers over expanded personal data useThe case by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in Federal Court said Google did not explicitly get consent nor prope...
27 Jul, 2020, 07.29 AM IST
- Australia watchdog okays Virgin Blue-Air NZ alliance
The ACCC will permit the two carriers to coordinate pricing, revenue management, schedules, capacity and routes in an agreement that will a...
16 Dec, 2010, 11.01 AM IST
- NAB keeps bid for AXA Asia Pacific alive
National Australia Bank kept its hopes of a multi-billion dollar takeover of AXA Asia Pacific alive with a plan to make divestments to remo...
09 Aug, 2010, 12.05 PM IST