The following are articles relevant to the Professional Investigator. Click on the title to make a comment or join the conversation.
Supreme Court decides Peter Ivan Macks’ liquidator registration to be suspended for three years – 17 February 2021
A prominent Adelaide liquidator has received a three-year ban after forging documents in an attempt to foil an ASIC investigation.
https://www.miragenews.com/supreme-court-decides-peter-ivan-macks-515144/
Australia to amend laws to make Google and Facebook pay – 16 February 2021
Australia’s government will amend draft laws that would make Google and Facebook pay for news to clarify that publishers would be paid in lump sums rather than per click on news article links. Google has threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the code were introduced and Facebook said it might block Australians from sharing news if the platform were forced to pay for news. The code aims to remove the digital giants’ dominant bargaining positions but creating an arbitration panel with the power to make legally binding decisions on price.
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-australia-amend-laws-google-facebook.html
Opposition accuses SA Government of hiring a private investigator to find ‘whistleblower – 16 February 2021
The SA Government has been accused of hiring a private investigator to hunt down a whistleblower leaking information about the Transport Departments campaign against privatisation in South Australia.
Email, SMS vaccine scams on the way: cyber experts – 16 February 2021
Cyber experts and authorities are warning of an inundation of vaccine scams, as Australia prepares to distribute COVID-19 vaccines from February 22. The roll-out of the vaccine in the US and Britain has inspired many vaccine related scams, with a 300 per cent jump in vaccine-related website domains in the lead-up to the first jabs being distributed.
(Access to digital version of AFR required to read this article.)
