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Comment: AI, cloud services in Australian antitrust watchdog's sights as data collection drives digital-platform probe

By Laurel Henning ( February 1, 2023, 20:32 GMT | Comment) -- Artificial intelligence, cloud services and next-generation connected devices, also known as the Internet of Things, are technology areas Australia’s competition regulator is conscious it hasn’t yet considered as part of a long-term review of digital platform services. Gina Cass-Gottlieb, the head of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, told MLex that the watchdog is now weighing up where it will turn its attention next for the second half of a five-year digital platform probe set to conclude in 2025. It must decide which services are “most relevant” to Australian users and businesses, she said.There was a time when the mere suggestion that Apple, Google and Meta Platforms’ dominance across app stores, search, adtech and social-media services needed to be reined in by mandatory codes of conduct would have dominated the news cycle....

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