Big Tech

Prime Minister Scott Morrison holds a doorstop after attending Mass at St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church at Arncliffe in Sydney, Sunday, March 17, 2019. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s warning on live streaming

Scott Morrison has called on social media platforms to reconsider whether they can safely offer live-streaming video services.

ZOE SAMIOS and Andrew White

National Affairs

Prime Minister Scott Morrison looks at floral tributes to the victims of the Christchurch terror attack during a visit to the Lakemba Mosque, in Lakemba, in south west Sydney, Saturday, March 16, 2019. The Prime Minster met with Islamic community leaders following the terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

PM to censor Facebook violence

Scott Morrison has demanded social media companies provide assurances terrorist attacks will not be shown live online again.

Rosie Lewis

CommentTechnology

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 11: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33, after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Whatever happened is a warning

Google was down and Facebook has had a record outage. There’s a warning we can’t ignore.

Chris Griffith

Technology

Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps are are displayed on an iPhone on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in New York. Facebook says it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and is working to resolve the issue. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Facebook: worst outage in history

Facebook has suffered the worst outage in history as global disruptions rocked the company for more than 12 hours.

Jessica Cortis and Supratim Adhikari

Technology

FILE - In this May 15, 2013, file photo, Amit Singhal, senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc., speaks at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco. Google paid former search executive Singhal $35 million in an exit package when the exec was reportedly forced to resign after a sexual assault investigation, according to court documents released Monday, March 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google ‘paid out sex accused’

Google agreed to pay $190m to two top executives who left after being accused of sexual harassment, a lawsuit alleges.

Rob Copeland

Technology

French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire speaks during a session of questions to the Government at the French National Assembly in Paris on March 5, 2019. (Photo by JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP)

French ready tech tax

France is preparing legislation to tax tech giants like Google and Facebook in what it says is a “fiscal justice” measure.

Companies

Facebook squares off with ACCC

Facebook has disputed calls for regulation of its news rankings, labelling draft ACCC proposals as “unprecedented”.

ZOE SAMIOS

Technology

Facebook got it wrong on teens

Facebook admits it gave misleading information about how many teenagers were using its banned tracking app.

DAVID SWAN

Media

10/12/2018: ACCC chairman Rod Sims discussing preliminary report into Google, Facebook and Australian news and advertising. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Media hard line on tech titans

Nine Entertainment and other media players have backed calls for the ACCC to police digital giants Google and Facebook.

DAVID SWAN, Lilly Vitorovich and ZOE SAMIOS

Media

Judith Neilson at the White Rabbit Gallery, Chippendale. New exhibition all Chinese contemporary art. Picture's Darren Leigh Roberts

‘Journalism needs our help’

Billionaire Judith Neilson wants tax and charity reforms to make it easier for philanthropists to support quality journalism.

Lilly Vitorovich

Wall Street Journal

FILE- In this May 1, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, Calif. In his first State of the State address, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state's consumers should get a piece of the billions of dollars that technology companies make off the personal data they collect. California-based Facebook and Google aren't commenting on the idea. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Apps send sensitive data to Facebook

Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, which then send that information to Facebook.

SAM SCHECHNER and MARK SECADA

Wall Street Journal

Generic photo of a small child being vaccinated with a needle. Vaccination / vaccine / baby Picture: iStock

Big tech takes on anti-vaxxers

Pinterest has stopped showing results on vaccine-related searches as it looks to censor unsubstantiated health claims.

Robert McMillan and Daniela Hernandez

Technology

Google’s ‘fake news’ warning

Google has hit back at ACCC plans for an algorithm regulator, declaring it could lead to manipulation and more fake news.

DAVID SWAN

The World

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 23, 2018 Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Elysee presidential palace, in Paris, following a meeting with French President on the day of the "Tech for Good" summit. - Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on November 15, 2018 sought to quell a new firestorm over the social network's handling of Russian misinformation efforts in 2016 and its hiring of a consulting firm that used questionable tactics to target the company's critics.Speaking on a conference call on content moderation efforts, Zuckerberg repeated his comments that Facebook was slow to spot Russian interference in the 2016 election but argued that "to suggest we weren't interested in knowing the truth or that we wanted to hide what we knew or stop investigations is simply untrue." (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)

UK slaps ‘digital gangster’ Facebook

Facebook executives have been vilified as “digital gangsters’’, in a damning report tabled in Westminster.

Jacquelin Magnay

Wall Street Journal

British report slams Facebook

Facebook has been slammed in a UK parliamentary committee report, accused of knowingly violating privacy and anticompetition laws.

Stephen Fidler and Georgia Wells

Media

Free TV CEO Bridget Fair in Crown St, Surry Hills.(THE AUSTRALIAN/Simon Bullard)

Tax breaks to support news call

Free TV Australia has called for news production tax breaks and other regulatory measures to clamp down on tech giants, Google and Facebook.

LILLY VITOROVICH

Technology

Skype’s sneaky contact harvest

A feature in Skype is encouraging users to access the private contacts of other Skype users.

Chris Griffith

Life

Antibes, France - February 21, 2018: User deletes Facebook app from iPhone. The social media platform faces increased scrutiny around personal data privacy and its handing of fake news and extremist content.

What if Facebook never saw the sun?

Users of the social media platform over-estimate how much they value it.

The Economist

The Weekend Australian Magazine

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Public defriender

He was an early tech investor and Mark Zuckerberg’s mentor. Now Roger McNamee is warning the world about the evils of Facebook.

Ben Hoyle

National Affairs

Crackdown on offensive content

Tech giants would be required to ‘invest heavily’ in efforts to remove harmful posts, under a draft online safety charter.

RICK MORTON

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