Has Big Tech’s big-spending campaign against competition law come to a university near you? James Panichi and Ryan Cropp on antitrust’s Big Tobacco moment inside.org.au/antitrusts-big…

Spoke to Australian Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind about AI hype and reality, the long shadow of 9/11 and whether Australians even care about privacy at all. FREE TO READ here: mlex.shorthandstories.com/straight-shoot…

Referring to Jewish-Italians as "Zionist agents" is textbook antisemitism. What a disgrace.

Sweet Jesus. How is this acceptable?

Haha. Scramble by Australian members of parliament to update the register on air travel upgrades has begun!

I recently moved my mortgage to another bank. When they told me to fill out a stack of forms, I said that they could simply access my records under the CDR. They told me they'd never heard of the CDR and didn't care. I had to fill out the forms...

Fantastic FOI work here from Saloni Sinha. OAIC goes cap-in-hand to the ACCC, says it doesn't even have enough money to store documents from an investigation. ACCC says: not our problem. MLex Ryan Cropp #privacy

Imagine Rob Ghali, one of Australia's top enforcement officials, finding himself on the receiving end of this email... "I would be able to provide you with the email address for the chief information officer..." MLex Saloni Sinha

How did a sometime actor running a 1-man #databroker business from his home office amass enough #PII to trigger a massive #databreach? My MLex colleague xuyuan & I scooped the FTC the California Privacy Protection Agency & > 40 state AGs trying to answer that question: mlex.com/mlex/data-priv…

HOT TECH REG NEWS: Long-awaited ACCC proposals to introduce mandatory competition codes for big tech platforms are set to go out for formal consultation in early December. The consultation will be on policy proposals and will not involve draft legislation.

Today's announcement that the Australian government is set to launch ex ante rules targeting digital platforms wasn't news to MLex readers... MLex's Canberra-based reporter Ryan Cropp had it all on Nov. 20.

Great FOI work from my colleague Saloni Sinha on the Clearview AI #privacy issue. Documents reveal the OAIC was considering a lawsuit targeting the US company, but ultimately decided against it (the eSafety commissioner's clash with X was seen as a cautionary tale).

NEW: Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant failed to disclose her attendance at a secretive, all-expenses-paid tech policy retreat funded by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest

🗞️ 'The head of Australia’s online-safety watchdog failed to disclose her attendance at a secretive, all-expenses-paid tech-policy and strategy retreat funded by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest.' 🔓 Access the ungated exclusive from Ryan Cropp Cropp➡️ lnkd.in/e2FQderg

Full eSafety story free to read below

FOI fishing expeditions are part of the reporter's toolbox, but this one's really dumb. As antitrust campaigns target global digital platforms, every second ACCC officials spend meeting their counterparts overseas is time (and money) well spent. This is stupid provincialism.

This is crazy. Why would an Australian lawmaker need to be flown across the world by a foreign government?

The ACCC entering "not applicable" as the value of its staff's ongoing use of Qantas and Virgin lounges is questionable. Standard lounges have a commercial value. The ACCC has regulatory oversight; it makes decisions that may affect the airlines' bottom line.

🔐 Data privacy enforcement is escalating fast. Our latest investigation—by Mike Swift, Matthew Newman and James Panichi—reveals over $18bn in sanctions issued globally over the past decade. ➡️ Access the report now, or request your free trial today: lnkd.in/eWwbTdsD

A great read, by James Panichi - The rise and fall of John Pesutto, on Inside Story inside.org.au/the-rise-and-f…