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Privacy watchdogs in Australia and the UK are jointly looking at the personal information handling practices of Clearview AI, with a focus on the company's use of scraped data and biometrics of individuals.

NBN speeds and performance declined as Australians followed social distancing instructions to stay home due to COVID-19, but picked up following measures by NBN Co and streaming providers, according to the competition regulator, the ACCC.

Online peer-to-peer marketplace Airtasker has announced a new global management structure, with Yaniv Bernstein - previously Airtasker’s VP Engineering - appointed to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer (COO).

Google, unsurprisingly, is the biggest slurper of data around the world, a study by security outfit Kaspersky has found, with the search behemoth ahead of all other companies that track users by a massive margin. In the Australia and New Zealand region, DoubleClick on its own had 15.51% of the market, with Google Analytics taking 5.22%. Google AdSense 2.47%, Google AdWords 2.39% and YouTube Analytics 1.17%.

Listed Australian tournament platform Esports Mogul has inked a partnership agreement with Southeast Asia influencer talent agency Tier One Entertainment.

Cybercriminals are abusing Twitter via tech support scams, command-and-control (C&C) operations and data exfiltration, with criminals found using fake Twitter accounts to spoof those of legitimate vendors for credible tech support scams.

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Google's video-sharing site YouTube has started to ban videos that show users how to get past software restrictions and provide instructions on information security.

Google has admitted that YouTube is far too big for it to clean up the site and remove every bit of harmful content.

Most New Zealanders are able to reliably stream high-definition video, such as Netflix and YouTube, most of the time, according to the competition regulator, The Commerce Commission, which says fibre performs the best in delivering video streaming services to consumers.

Google's YouTube video-sharing site says it will remove content that denies well-documented events like the Holocaust took place, with the crackdown appearing to be sparked by claims that it provides a platform for hate speech.

The outage that Google experienced on Monday AEST was caused by a configuration change that was pushed out to more servers than intended, the company says in a blog post.

New copyright rules in the member states of the European Union will mean that Google will have to pay publishers for any snippets it uses from their publications, while Facebook will have to change its algorithms to filter out protected content.

Mahmood Khan will be the first Asian artist to record original songs with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra when the musical powerhouses combine for a recording on 16 April at Trackdown Studios.

The South Australia Department for Education has developed a new initiative, titled the "School Improvement Dashboard", that has been rolled out to all 512 South Australian Government schools to facilitate school improvement planning.

Australians aged between 14 and 17 are, as expected, very heavy mobile users with members of this age group checking their social media more than five times a day and two-thirds using their mobile devices while involved in other activities, according to a survey by Deloitte Access Economics and the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association.

New laws that target social media platforms which allow live streaming and broadcast of violent crimes has been passed by the Australian Parliament.

Singapore has proposed a law to police social media, with those who spread lies online that harm the public interest to be jailed for 10 years, while companies that host the falsehoods would be fined up to S$1 million (A$1.03 million).

The Federal Government will fine social media and online platforms operating in the country $10 million for serious breaches of the Privacy Act, or thrice the value of any benefit derived from the breach.

When anything bad happens, politicians always look for the first convenient scapegoat. And in the case of the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand, they have their bete noire right in front of them: social media.