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Search engine could be disabled if code on content payment is enforced ‘Unworkable’ is how Google’s Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand described the new law on payment for news content, reports Bloomberg. Mel Silva told a parliamentary hearing that if the proposed new code, requiring platforms to pay for displaying third party news, became law… [Read More]

Accounts for 13-15 year olds to be private by default Social Media platform TikTok has announced changes to its privacy settings designed to protect younger users, reports telecompaper. Accounts registered to 13-15 year olds will default to private, meaning that only someone approved by the user can follow them. The ‘everyone’ comment setting will be removed for… [Read More]

Backlash risks growth ambitions in India The new privacy policy announced by WhatsApp continues to create headaches for the company as it battles mistrust globally, reports Reuters. The new policy requires users to allow the sharing of their data with Facebook and other group companies, but the backlash in India, WhatsApp’s largest market, has forced the platform… [Read More]

Platform ‘hasn’t done enough to foster healthy conversations’ Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has described the ban on Donald Trump as ‘right’ but ‘dangerous’, reports the BBC. In a long thread, the Twitter founder accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet. He described the decision as the right thing to do in… [Read More]

Summary Report IIC Workshop: Evolving regulatory frameworks in times of change, 9 September 2020 Access the Report here.

Chris Chapman, the President of the IIC, was asked yesterday by a journalist from the Sydney Morning Herald his views on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram banning President Trump. He responded with this: “This debate around blocking Trump and the evolving responsibilities (or otherwise) of dominant social media platforms more generally is just one of thousands… [Read More]