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Facebook eyes your kitchen

Facebook’s new in-home streaming and camera devices are coming to Australia.

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Facebook listened to audio

Facebook and other tech giants are being investigated for potential breaches of privacy laws.

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26/7/19: Head of the ACCC Rod Simms in his Sydney office. The ACCC released its report into Google and Facebook today in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

Tech giants told to heed law

Rod Sims has warned Google and Facebook to either abide by the law or leave our shores.

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DigitalThe Wall Street Journal

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 30, 2019 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, the Facebook's developer conference in San Jose, Calif. Michelle Richardson, director of privacy and data for the Center for Democracy and Technology, said it's possible that accountability measures imposed in July 2019 on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who must personally certify compliance, may give the company pause before launching new services that could threaten users' privacy or data security. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

Facebook plan to pay for news

Facebook is offering news outlets millions of dollars for content rights for a new news section.

Benjamin Mullin and Sahil Pate

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Ad execs ‘unaware’ of report

Hundreds of advertising execs have claimed they weren’t aware of the ACCC’s tech giant probe.

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Google and Facebook face might

But Donald Trump springs to their defence and threatens to put tariffs on French wine.

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20/02/2019: WiseTech Global founder and CEO Richard White announcing the company's results in Sydney on Wednesday. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Facebook, Google ‘not evil’

Attempts to break up Facebook and Google are a waste of time, warns WiseTech founder Richard White.

Chris Griffith

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26/7/19: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Communications minister, Paul Fletcher discuss the release of the ACCC report into Google and Facebook today in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

Titans back ‘smart’ rules

Local Facebook and Google execs have backed moves to regulate the sector in the wake of a major report.

Lilly Vitorovich

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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, July 25, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

‘Trust us’ plea not enough

Issues caused by the dominance of companies like Facebook and Google are too important to trust the industry to fix itself, regulators say.

Andrew White, Leo Shanahan and Zoe Samios

Record fineThe Wall Street Journal

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 10, 2019, the Facebook app is seen in this photo illustration in Washington, DC. - Facebook acknowledged July 23, 2019, that a flaw in its Messenger Kids service allowed children get into group chats with people who were not approved by their parents. The leading social network said it has been shutting down the group chats involved and notifying thousands of parents that their children many have unintentionally connected with strangers. (Photo by Alastair Pike / AFP)

Facebook shrugs off $7bn hit

US regulators slap Facebook with a record fine for privacy violations as the company posts strong growth.

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‘Must do better’ not enough

Facebook must drop its ‘we must do better’ mantra, News Corp’s corporate affairs chief Campbell Reid says.

Zoe Samios

TechnologyTechnology

Facebook grapples with outage

A global Facebook outage has also affected apps like WhatsApp and Instagram.

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It’s about betrayal, not Brussels

The Tory leadership contest has turned into a bidding war on Brexit, with no-deal as the virility test.

Rachel Sylvester

CryptocurrencyThe Wall Street Journal

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 10, 2012 shows an iPhone displaying the Facebook app's screen in Washington, DC. - Facebook is leaping into the world of cryptocurrency with its own digital money, designed to let people save, send or spend money as easily as firing off text messages."Libra" -- described as "a new global currency" -- was unveiled June 18, 2019 in a new initiative in payments for the world's biggest social network with the potential to bring crypto-money out of the shadows and into the mainstream. Facebook and an array of partners released a prototype of Libra as an open source code to be used by developers interested in weaving it into apps, services or businesses ahead of a rollout as global digital money next year. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

A licence to print money?

Buy Facebook’s Libra and you are literally giving the social media giant a licence to print money.

James Mackintosh

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British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg arrives in Downing Street in London, England, 14 Dec 2011. European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said Tuesday that a demand by Britain for its financial services industry to be exempted from EU regulation threatened to break up the single market. AFP PHOTO/BEN STANSALL

Regulate us, says Clegg

Governments must regulate social networks, Facebook’s head of global affairs Nick Clegg says.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 10: Jeremy Howe of the Magpies leaps into Tom McDonald of the Demons for an attempted mark but was penalised during the AFL Round 12 match between Collingwood v Melbourne at Melbourne Cricket Ground on June 10, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge/AFL Photos/Getty Images)

Facebook signs major sports

Facebook has locked in streaming content deals with some of Australia’s biggest sporting codes.

Zoe Samios

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FILE - In this April 30, 2019, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference in San Jose, Calif. The Boston-based renewable energy developer Longroad Energy announced in May that Facebook is building a massive new solar farm in West Texas, a project believed to be one of the largest in the nation and the social media giant's first direct investment in renewable energy. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)

Facebook’s massive first solar play

Facebook is building a solar farm believed to be one of the largest solar projects in the US.

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TechnologyThe Wall Street Journal

Less ‘news’ is good news

Facebook hopes a new look and emphasis will help convince the public it’s taking criticism seriously.

Jeff Horwitz

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Canadian flag waving with Parliament Buildings hill and Library in the background. Picture: iStock.

Canada rebukes Facebook

Canada’s privacy commissioner said Facebook broke the law when it harvested data from 600,000 citizens.

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Facebook fights misinformation

Under-pressure Facebook says updates will combat the spread of false and harmful information.

Barbara Ortutay and Rachel Lerman

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