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• Digital platforms face ACCC scrutiny for data collection and ‘unfavourable’ cloud storage

  Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft hold ‘gatekeeper’ status for consumers’ digital usage.

• NBN impersonation scams hitting Aussies for $1.2M this year

  More than $600,000 lost from people in NSW.

• ACCC greenlights NBN SAU

  Includes long term pricing commitments.

• Dell hit with $10M penalty for misleading monitor discounts

  Follows the Federal Court’s June declaration that consumers were misled.

• Telstra, TPG won't appeal regional network sharing deal rejection

  TPG walks back from seeking a judicial review.

• Meta slammed with $20M penalty over Aussie user data security claims

  Claimed data would be kept safe when it was used for market research activities.