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A law which shields big tech platforms from lawsuits over content provided by users is being challenged in the US Supreme Court, and is likely to be heard next year.

Facebook's parent company Meta has been accused of resorting to "robber-baron" tactics in Canada by threatening to block sharing of news feeds if Ottawa legislates to force it to pay news outlets for their content.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has seen US$800 billion (A$1.24 trillion) wiped off its market value after the company reported less than inspiring results for its third quarter.

Meta, the parent company of social media giant Facebook, has threatened to block the sharing of news feeds in Canada — similar to what it did in Australia — if Ottawa legislates to force it to pay news outlets for their content.

The Federal Government appears to be unwilling to say anything negative about the ABC's blanket collection of user data from its iview application, preferring instead to offer noncommittal replies.

GUEST OPINION: When the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to allow staff to work from home, the biggest initial challenge to overcome was organising ways to effectively communicate. Many turned to services such as Zoom and Teams to allow group conversations while mobiles became the favoured one-on-one channel. Over a period of a few months, most staff became comfortable with these ways of staying in touch while working remotely. However now, with hybrid work practices likely to be a feature of business life for some time to come, many organisations are realising there is another challenge that needs to be solved. As well as enabling hybrid communication, there is also a need for hybrid collaboration capabilities.

GUEST OPINION: When the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to allow staff to work from home, the biggest initial challenge to overcome was organising ways to effectively communicate. Many turned to services such as Zoom and Teams to allow group conversations while mobiles became the favoured one-on-one channel. Over a period of a few months, most staff became comfortable with these ways of staying in touch while working remotely. However now, with hybrid work practices likely to be a feature of business life for some time to come, many organisations are realising there is another challenge that needs to be solved. As well as enabling hybrid communication, there is also a need for hybrid collaboration capabilities.

Global CCaaS market revenue is estimated to hit US$15.6 billion ($22.2 billion) by 2027, rising from US$4.9 billion ($6.9 billion) in 2022, driven by the breadth of services offered within subscription-based models including advanced analytics capabilities, AI-enabled chatbots, and personalised video solutions, according to Juniper Research.

Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, Rod Sims is continuing to try and spin the myth that the News Media Bargaining Code, which was put in place last year, can be used to dictate things to either Google or Facebook.

Fifty percent of travellers use public Wi-Fi while on the road. However, only 20% of them use a VPN to protect themselves while being connected to a public network, according to a NordVPN survey.

Globally, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of accounts specified in data requests for government surveillance increased from 0.9 million to 1.3 million - with Australia ranked eighth in government surveillance, according to the latest study by cybersecurity company Surfshark.

The ongoing geopolitical situation and rising inflationary pressure have put a dent on the technology sector with 24 of the top 25 technology companies—the likes of Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Taiwan Semiconductor—reporting a combined loss of US$3.3 trillion ($4.3 trillion) in their market capitalisation in Q2 2022, according to analytics company GlobalData.

COMPANY NEWS: Marketplacer, a global technology platform that enables brands, retailers, suppliers, communities and innovators to easily build and grow successful online marketplaces at scale, today announced a partner agreement with Intelligent Reach, the provider of a best-in-class product marketing platform which enables customers to manage cross-channel product marketing and seamlessly manage stock and order management across marketplaces.

The ABC has reported that learning software providers were slurping up data of students during the pandemic without clearly indicating they were doing so, but failed to disclose that both its iview service and its news website do something quite similar.

Former ACCC chair Rod Sims says under the terms of an ongoing Treasury review into the News Media Bargaining Code, social media giant Facebook should be forced to negotiate and strike content deals with outlets like SBS and The Conversation.

The ABC is continuing to ignore requests from the Australian Privacy Foundation to clarify details about access to its iview service which now requires a compulsory login, the APF says.

The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, has given an indication as to how he would run the company, tweeting out that the suspension of the New York Post's Twitter account in 2020 over a story about Hunter Biden was "obviously incredibly inappropriate".

The ABC has been asked to clarify whether iview users are being informed about the extent to which their data is being shared with commercial entities or whether they are in the dark about it altogether.

The ABC, which appeared to have delayed the imposition of compulsory log-ins beyond its original stated deadline of March, now seems to have clamped down at the wrong time: during the federal election campaign.

The co-founder of UltraViolet, an American national gender justice advocacy organisation, has called on Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg to step down following reports that she had heavied a newspaper to drop a report about her boyfriend.