Tag: Australia

Reversing a decision to block all news in Australia which was broadly seen as a heavy-handed move and which ended up taking down health and emergency services along with government pages, the technology giant said the government had agreed to change a proposed Media Bargaining Code that would have dictated compensation for linking to news. … Read more

The Australian Federal Police announced this week that they illegally obtained a journalist’s phone records under the Turnbull government’s new metadata retention plan. The breach was accidental, according to the police, and happened as part of an investigation into a leak of police material. The journalist was not notified about their data being accessed, due … Read more