Companies claiming environment and sustainability claims they can’t back up are being put on notice by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) as it commences a fresh sweep of the Internet to scour for misleading online business reviews and marketing.

Google LLC has been ordered to pay $60 million in penalties by the Federal Court for misleading consumers about use of their personal location data under the first public enforcement outcome to arise out of the ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry.

Organisations that will increasingly fall under Australia’s Consumer Data Right legislation are now being offered a free tool by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to help them prepare.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lorna Jane has been penalised $5 million by the Federal Court after admitting it made false and misleading consumer claims around its ‘LJ Shield Activewear’ technology suggesting it would prevent customers catching Covid-19.

The owner of women’s fashion brands including Katies, Millers and Noni B has been fined more than $600,000 for multiple breaches of the Australian consumer law relating to its health essential product line.

Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is claiming a world-first after the Federal Court found Google guilty of misleading consumers about how personal location data collected across Android devices was captured and used.

Australia’s controversial and internationally debated News Media Bargaining Code is a step closer to being enacted into legislation following the Senate’s decision to pass the bill.

Google has defended its position as a connector and supporter of digital advertising services and stressed continuing levels of competition across the ecosystem in its preliminary response to the ACCC’s interim adtech services inquiry report released yesterday.

A lack of competition, choice and transparency pervades Australia’s digital advertising supply chain and it’s hurting publishers, advertisers and consumers alike, says the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Google’s threat to remove its search engine offering from Australia unless a ‘workable’ solution is found to the proposed News Media Bargaining Code has drawn the ire of the Prime Minster through to industry groups and media organisations.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is once again instigating proceedings against Facebook, this time for allegedly misusing consumer data relating to a VPN app for marketing purposes.

News of the Federal Government tabling the ACCC’s news media bargaining code of conduct bill this week in Parliament has been welcomed by several Australian news media organisations even as questions about the ongoing power of digital platform providers continue.

Trivago has lost an appeal through the Australian Federal Court against an earlier decision finding it guilty of misleading consumers on hotel room rates on its website and via TV advertising.

Google has been hit with an antitrust lawsuit by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in search and search advertising, in what the DOJ says is a violation of US antitrust laws.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will start its investigation of the mobile app marketing in Australia, part of its ongoing digital platforms inquiry.