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The Federal Court has today ordered that Secure Parking Pty Ltd pay $10.95 million in penalties for making false or misleading claims about its pre-book “Secure-a-Spot” online parking service, following ACCC action.

The Federal Court has today ordered Master Wealth Control Pty Ltd (DG Institute) to pay $5 million in pecuniary penalties for making false or misleading representations to consumers in the promotion and sale of two education programs called Real Estate Rescue (RER) and Master Wealth Control (MWC), and to pay consumer redress totalling $14.7 million to students enrolled in the MWC program.

Scam warning: The ACCC is aware that scammers have been calling people, falsely claiming to help them get a refund from various businesses. They may use this media release about refunds from Grays to convince you that it is real.

Australia's eSafety Commissioner has dropped legal action against social media site X (formerly Twitter) over the posting of videos of a stabbing in Sydney.

Despite a Federal Court decision that it cannot keep a report by Deloitte into a 2022 cyberattack secret, Singtel Optus appears to be unwilling to commit to publicly releasing the same.

The Federal Court has set 24 and 25 July for a two-day hearing to settle the stoush between the eSafety Commission and the social media site X over the posting of videos of a stabbing in Sydney.

An interim order that required the social media platform X [formerly Twitter] to block access to videos of a stabbing in Sydney, that occurred on 15 April, has been extended until Monday [13 May] morning, when Federal Court Judge Geoffrey Kennett will render his judgment.

The tussle between X owner Elon Musk and the Australian eSafety Commission over taking down videos of a stabbing in Sydney, will continue in court on 10 May after a brief Federal Court case management hearing on Wednesday afternoon.

The Australian Federal Court has ruled that X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, should shield all users from videos of last week's stabbing incident in Sydney until the issue is dealt with later this week.

The ACCC has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Clorox Australia Pty Ltd, the manufacturer of GLAD-branded kitchen and garbage bags, for allegedly making false or misleading representations that certain kitchen and garbage bags were partly made of recycled ‘ocean plastic’, in breach of the Australian Consumer Law.

The Federal Court has found that Master Wealth Control Pty Ltd, trading as DG Institute breached the Australian Consumer Law, and that its sole director Dominque Grubisa was “knowingly concerned in the contraventions”, in proceedings brought by the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

TPG Telecom is seeking better commercial alternatives after it decided it will no longer ask the Federal Court to review the Australian Competition Tribunal's unfavourable ruling against its network sharing spectrum deal with Telstra.

The Federal Court has ordered that Dell Australia Pty Ltd pay $10 million for making false and misleading representations on its website about discount prices for add-on computer monitors

Meta's wholly-owned subsidiaries Facebook Israel and Onavo have each been penalised $10 million for engaging in conduct liable to mislead in breach of the Australian Consumer Law.

Telecommunications provider Singtel Optus has been hit with a class action, with the law firm Slater and Gordon saying it had been filed on behalf of people affected by last year's data breach.

The competition watchdog the ACCC has launched Federal Court proceedings against technology company Swift Networks for alleged bid rigging and price fixing when tendering to supply equipment and services to five Pilbara mining village sites.

Motorola Solutions has announced that the Federal Court of Australia has ruled in the company's favour in its copyright and patent infringement claims against Hytera Communications and Hytera Communications of Australia.

The ACCC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Master Wealth Control Pty Limited, trading as DG Institute, for allegedly making false or misleading representations about the Real Estate Rescue program and the Master Wealth Control program DG Institute offered to consumers, in breach of the Australian Consumer Law.

The Federal Court has ordered that the largest internet service providers—Telstra, Optus, and TPG Telecom—need to pay penalties amounting to $33.5 million after each companies admitted false and misleading representations when promoting certain NBN internet plans, according to the ACCC.

Mercedes-Benz Australia/Pacific is to pay penalties of $12.5 million for failing to use attention-capturing, high-impact language when communicating with consumers about the compulsory recall of potentially deadly Takata airbags.