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Australian leader defends social media ban as teens flaunt workaroundsAustralian PM Anthony Albanese defended the new under-16 social media ban as a lifesaving measure despite initial challenges and teen defia...11 Dec, 2025, 01.31 PM IST- Australia revokes exemption to add YouTube to teen social media banAustralia has reversed its decision and included YouTube in the social media ban for teenagers, sparking potential legal challenges from Al...30 Jul, 2025, 11.40 AM IST
- Australia rejects Elon Musk's claim that it plans to control access to internetAustralian Treasurer Jim Chalmers dismissed Elon Musk's criticism of proposed legislation that would ban children under 16 from social medi...22 Nov, 2024, 02.35 PM IST
- Australia rejects Elon Musk's claim that it plans to control access to internetAustralian Treasurer Jim Chalmers dismissed Elon Musk's criticism of proposed legislation that would ban children under 16 from social medi...22 Nov, 2024, 02.21 PM IST
- Australian court upholds order for Musk's X to pay $418,000 fine over anti-child abuse probeElon Musk's X was fined by an Australian court for failing to cooperate with a regulator's request for information about its anti-child-abu...04 Oct, 2024, 01.27 PM IST
- Elon Musk calls Australian government 'fascists' over misinformation lawElon Musk criticized Australia's center-left government, calling them "fascists" over proposed legislation to fine social media firms for f...13 Sep, 2024, 08.25 AM IST
- Australia threatens fines for social media giants enabling misinformationThe Australian government said it would make tech platforms set codes of conduct governing how they stop dangerous falsehoods spreading, to...12 Sep, 2024, 12.44 PM 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 lifts order blocking X on church stabbing videoAustralian court rejects bid to extend order for X, owned by Musk, blocking videos of bishop's stabbing. Legal tussle with PM Albanese. Mus...13 May, 2024, 08.27 AM IST
- Australia's Latitude Group opposed to paying ransom to cyber attack criminalsLast month, the company said hackers stole nearly 8 million Australian and New Zealand drivers licence numbers in one of the country's bigg...11 Apr, 2023, 09.34 AM IST
- Australia to make Big Tech hand over misinformation dataThe Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will also be able to enforce an internet industry code on uncooperative platforms,...21 Mar, 2022, 09.35 AM IST
- Australia challenges Google's ad dominance, calls for data-use rulesThe US justice department is meanwhile preparing an anti-monopoly lawsuit accusing Google of using its market muscle to hobble advertising ...28 Sep, 2021, 04.13 PM IST
- What's up between Google, Facebook and Australia?Google had threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia in response to the legislation, which would create a panel to make...18 Feb, 2021, 02.57 PM 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
- Google, Yahoo criticise Australian Internet filterGoogle and Yahoo have criticised Australia's proposal for a mandatory Internet filter, calling it a heavy-handed measure that could restric...24 Mar, 2010, 11.02 AM IST
- Hackers disrupt Australian government websitesHackers shut down several Australian government websites in a coordinated attack against a proposed Internet filter that targets pornograph...10 Feb, 2010, 01.08 PM IST
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