Half-time at the ACCC's five-year Digital Platform Services Inquiry sees the agency reflecting on changes in the high-tech sector and recommending a new approach to regulation, with up-front or ex-ante rulemaking in additional to traditional enforcement. Digital Platforms Branch General Manager Kate Reader discusses the ACCC's proposals and what they would mean for big tech, small business and consumers.

Plus turf wars and concerted practices, government action on privacy and buy-now-pay-later arrangements, and Swift justice for Ticketmaster. All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein on The Competitive Edge with Gilbert + Tobin.

G+T on the ACCC's first concerted practices enforcement outcome against Lawn Solutions Australia
MLex reporting on Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Information and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk at the IAPP Summit 2022
The Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enforcement and Other Measures) Bill 2022 has finally passed both houses
G+T on Treasury's consultation on the regulation of buy now, pay later services
G+T's deep dive into the ACCC's Digital Platform Services Inquiry Interim Report No. 5
Senator Amy Klobuchar's letter to Ticketmaster following Taylor Swift ticketing issues
Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team

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Number Five is Alive: ACCC Digital Platforms chief Kate Reader on the latest report of the big tech inquiry and the argument for upfront regulation.