The judge overseeing three court proceedings against Optus over a 2022 data breach has questioned why it took the privacy regulator three years to file its case.
Gambling company Tabcorp has been fined $4 million or sending over 5,700 messages to VIP customers that failed to comply with spam laws.
Cable television provider Foxtel has been pulled up by the media regulator for displaying a gambling advertisement during an AFL match without attaching a responsible gambling notice.
Telstra has been hit with a $626,00 penalty for sending over 10 million text messages that required customers to log in before unsubscribing.
Telstra has paid a $394,380 penalty for shirking its obligation to check internet speeds when migrating customers to the NBN.
Telcos are set to face penalties of up to $10 million for breaching the industry code under a suite of proposed changes to the Telecommunications Act.
Telstra has been hit with a $3 million penalty for failing to follow emergency call rules during a Triple Zero outage in March.
The Alabese government has dumped a bill to combat misinformation and disinformation online following opposition from Liberal and Greens senators.
Optus has been hit with a $12 million penalty over a “preventable” nationwide network outage in November 2023, which left thousands of customers unable to make emergency calls.
Optus has struck back at ACMA’s claim that a cyberattack that exposed the information of around 10 million customers was not a “highly sophisticated” operation.