Special Counsel Amelia McKellar joins us with the latest on AI and consumer protection, from rogue chatbots to fake reviews and how regulators are combatting and using AI. Plus price-fixing on defence force estates in the ACCC's first competition law court case in a while; new and proposed laws on the merger process, social media age restrictions, privacy and ex ante digital platform regulation; and the Digital Platform Services Inquiry returns to search as the US Department of Justice proposes radical remedies for Google. All this and the green Teletubby with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein. [Links]

• • The Three Laws of Robotics on Wikipedia
  • TVTropes on works suggested by other works
  • Press release and concise statement for ACCC v Spotless
  • G+T on the passing of the merger reform legislation and what happens next
  • G+T on the passing of the social media minimum age legislation
  • Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind on social media age restrictions
  • G+T on the new consultation on an ex ante digital competition regime
  • G+T on the 9th and final interim report of the Digital Platform Services Inquiry
  • Report of the Committee on Digital Competition Law (India)
  • Moffatt v Air Canada, the AI chatbot decision
  • G+T on the first tranche Privacy Act amendments
  • Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team
  • New rules for the consumer data right
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Partner Liana Witt joins us to talk about the latest in competition and consumer law enforcement and law reform. The ACCC is leaning into consumer and cost-of-living issues as a new prohibition against unfair trading practices is taking shape. Private and class actions are dominating new competition law cases, but ACCC cases currently on appeal could change the enforcement landscape dramatically. Plus age restrictions for social media and a duty of care for digital platforms; new merger laws reach the final stretch; and Sigma and Chemist Warehouse take the W, skibidi. All this and some confusion about US cabinet appointments with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.

• • G+T on the passage of the merger reform legislation
  • G+T on social media age restrictions and the digital duty of care
  • The latest Rap Sheet and Shop Talk newsletters
  • G+T consultant Anne Twomey on misinformation and disinformation and the doomed MAD Bill
  • G+T on Treasury's latest consultation on unfair trading practices
  • Senator Fatima Payman on "brain rot"
  • The Straight Dope on the pompatus of love
  • Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team
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Productivity Commission Chair Danielle Wood joins Partner Jeremy Jose to discuss the evolving role of the Commission, the Competition Taskforce, the progress and prospects of the new Competition Policy Review, and the importance of basing Australian policy on Australian evidence and data. Plus regulatory grids and antitrust raps at G+T's inaugural Financial Services Forum, a googol roubles trouble Google, rectangular wheat biscuit products and the ACCC's enduring priority of breakfast, and parliament juggles merger laws and divestiture bills. All this and four more years, apparently, with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.

• • G+T on the inaugural Financial Services Forum
  • Our new financial services-themed cryptic crossword
  • ABC on Google's amusingly massive Russian fines
  • ACCC on Weet-Bix maker Sanitarium's acquisition of Vita Brits
  • Extended mix of Bob Hoskins and the menacing Weetabix kids
  • Track the merger review bill and the latest divestiture bill
  • What is the Federation Chamber?
  • Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team
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