by Nadia Cameron | Apr 28, 2022 | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), digital advertising, digital platforms inquiry, ecommerce, marketplaces, retail
A fresh report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) into online retail marketplaces has raised a number of concerns around their consumer data collection, recommendation and service practices.
by Nadia Cameron | Apr 22, 2022 | Advertising, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Consumer law, digital advertising, Federal Court of Australia, legal action, marketplaces, Trivago
Accommodation comparison website, Trivago, has been ordered to pay penalties of $44.5 million by the Federal Court for misleading consumers two years after being found in breach of Australian consumer law.
by Nadia Cameron | Mar 21, 2022 | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), cryptocurrency, digital advertising, Facebook, Meta Group, scams, social media advertising
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is lining up alongside Twiggy Forrest and taking Facebook parent company, Meta, to court for publishing scam celebrity cryptocurrency advertising on its platform.
by Nadia Cameron | Feb 28, 2022 | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), digital platforms, digital platforms inquiry
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking feedback on a new discussion paper looking at legislative reforms, rules, codes of conduct and access regimes that could directly address the market dominance of digital platform giants.
by Nadia Cameron | Oct 28, 2021 | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), browsers, digital platforms inquiry, Search Engines
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is calling for search engine choice screens to be introduced in an attempt to kerb Google’s dominance of the search engine market.
by Christine Powis | Sep 28, 2021 | accc, ACCC chairman Rod Sims, adtech, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), digital advertising, digital economy, Google, IAB
The ACCC’s just-released report on its inquiry into digital advertising services concludes that existing competition laws do not enable the ACCC to adequately address the sector’s competition issues and Google's dominant position in the adtech ecosystem.
