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 
• Email us at edge@gtlaw.com.au