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Platforms should be reined in by strengthened consumer law, Australian regulator says

( April 11, 2025, 03:45 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Digital platforms’ use of “clickwrap” agreements that contain take-it-or-leave-it terms and the bundling of consent in policies that are long, complex and unclear to obtain unreasonable rights to use data are practices that should be regulated by changes to Australia’s consumer laws, according to the country’s antitrust regulator. In a submission to a government review of consumer law, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission also said that Microsoft Edge’s repeated disabling of the browser extension of DuckDuckGo, a search engine, is an example of ways in which the law should be tightened.The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's full submission is attached. ...

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