New mlex podcast and report on implications of Australia’s digital platforms report

Stephen King, ‘Our corporate cops allowed Facebook to grow big by worrying about the wrong thing’ (The Conversation, 9 February 2021)

Tim Dwyer, ‘Is news worth a lot or a little? Google and Facebook want to have it both ways’ (The Conversation, 25 January 2021)

The ACCC is granting an unprecedented number of interim authorisations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sven Gallasch offers some useful commentary on these exemptions.

Katharine Kemp has penned an opinion piece on the ACCC’s authorisation of supermarkets working together during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Callum Henderson has posted a useful case note on the Federal Court’s Vodafone TPG decision.

Katharine Kemp and Rob Nicholls have a piece in today’s The Conversation discussing the federal government’s response to the recommendations made by the ACCC in its Digital Platforms Inquiry.

The ACCC has instituted Federal Court proceedings alleging Google LLC and Google Australia Pty Ltd misled consumers about the collection and use of personal location data.

In an attempt to avoid going a whole year without a blog news update, let’s review what’s been happening since the last blog post in June 2018 …

It’s all happening in Australian competition law. …

The reasons for judgment have been released in the Tabcorp/Tatts judicial review matter. Of the ACCC’s three grounds of judicial review only the first succeeded; the Court held that the Tribunal erred in not assessing certain detriment alleged by the ACCC.