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X Corp wants to dodge eSafety Commissioner’s notice served on Twitter
Social Media 2024-09-09 11:45 pm By Andy Sidler

X Corp claims it is not answerable to a compliance notice the eSafety Commissioner issued to Twitter concerning its monitoring of child sexual abuse on its platform, telling the court there’s a “lively dispute” about the effect of the company’s acquisition by Elon Musk.

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Judge strikes out ACCC’s entire claim against Meta over crypto ads
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-09-06 12:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Over objections from the ACCC, a judge has struck out the regulator’s entire case against Meta over scam cryptocurrency ads on Facebook after it clarified that each allegedly misleading ad should be a separate contravention.

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Judge throws out defamation case over Shandee Blackburn podcast
Defamation 2024-08-27 11:40 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has thrown out a defamation case by John Peros, the former boyfriend of Shandee Blackburn, over a podcast by The Australian dealing with her murder, finding he did not suffer serious harm from the publication.

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OAIC won’t investigate facial recognition software company Clearview AI again
AI 2024-08-26 11:50 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The OAIC will not investigate Clearview AI further after finding in 2021 that the US-based facial recognition software company breached privacy rules by scraping facial images from the web, but the regulator promised to weigh in soon on when the use of personal information to train AI could run afoul of privacy laws.

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Former MP Andrew Laming’s penalty doubled for breaching electoral laws with Facebook posts
Politics 2024-08-23 11:58 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Former Liberal MP Andrew Laming has been hit with a $40,000 fine for failing to disclose that he was behind three politically motivated Facebook posts in 2018 and 2019.

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Meta can’t be left in the dark about ACCC’s crypto ads case, judge says
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-08-12 2:59 pm By Sam Matthews

The consumer regulator must identify the advertisements it relies on to prove its case against Meta over scam cryptocurrency ads on Facebook, with a judge saying the social media giant should know the case it has to meet.

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Senator Reynolds takes stand at defamation trial, defends conduct after Higgins’ alleged rape
Trials 2024-08-05 11:52 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Senator Linda Reynolds has taken the stand in her defamation case against Brittany Higgins, telling a court on Tuesday she encouraged the former staffer to go to the police after her alleged rape by colleague Bruce Lehrmann because she was “not the right person” to conduct an investigation.  

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Aussie YouTube content creator hit with defamation case over product review
Defamation 2024-07-24 11:49 pm By Sam Matthews

An Australian YouTuber has been sued by a lithium battery company which asked him for “unbiased reviews” of its products, saying his videos raising concerns about the batteries are defamatory.

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Five years in, Meta goes on offensive in competition case by social media start-up
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-06-27 11:15 pm By Sam Matthews

Five years after it was first hit with a competition case by Dialogue Consulting, Meta has filed a cross-claim against the Melbourne social media company, alleging it collects and stores Instagram user login credentials and instructs clients to provide inaccurate information to the platform.

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eSafety Commissioner to drop court case against X over stabbing footage
X Corp 2024-06-05 1:14 pm By Christine Caulfield

The online safety watchdog has dropped her Federal Court action seeking to force X to put a worldwide block on graphic footage of the April stabbing of a religious leader at Wakeley, following a judge’s decision not to maintain an injunction against the social media platform.

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