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ACCC will eye algorithms to protect small business: Sims

ACCC will eye algorithms to protect small business: Sims

The consumer watchdog has the capacity to track how algorithms used by big tech companies work and will act to protect the interests of small businesses, its chairman says.

by Shared by SMH | Mar 18, 2019

ACCC will eye algorithms to protect small business: Sims

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that smaller businesses and startups were not the focus of the watchdog’s scrutiny of big data and the use of algorithms.