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  • ACMA voices concerns over revised TCP Code

    By Hamish Barwick | 18 April, 2012 15:46

    The Australia Media and Communications Authority (ACMA) may reject the revised Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code submitted by industry body, the Communications Alliance, because of issues with sections covering advertising, pre-sale information and expenditure tools.

  • DNSChanger malware victims may face internet switch off: ACMA

    By Hamish Barwick | 30 March, 2012 15:16

    The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has urged Australian internet users who may be DNSChanger victims to remove the malware form their computers before 9 July or face no internet service when domain name system (DNS) servers maintained by the FBI are switched off.

  • ACMA calls for improved senior citizen cyber safety education

    By Hamish Barwick | 23 March, 2012 16:56

    Improving cyber safety education of senior citizens through more targeted programs would greatly improve their confidence and get more elderly Australians online, according to an Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) submission to a Senate committee investigating cyber safety for senior Australians.

  • EventsHQ hit with enforceable undertaking under Spam Act

    By Hamish Barwick | 07 March, 2012 16:32

    National Poker League brand owner, EventsHQ, has accepted to meet requirements of the Spam Act following an investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) into SMS messages sent to consumers which promoted National Poker League events.

  • Mobile Premium Services Code targets misleading SMS adverts

    By Hamish Barwick | 01 March, 2012 12:18

    The introduction of the Communications Alliance’s Mobile Premium Services (MPS) Code is intended to eliminate misleading premium rate SMS and MMS service advertisements.

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