Meta pleads the court to allow documents alleging it profited off 'crypto' investment ads that turned out to be scams to remain confidential, which the Federal Court of Australia finds 'strange.'
Two regulators in Australia have jointly deployed countermeasures services offered by U.K.-based Netcraft to automatically take down websites hosting phishing and other scams on a trial basis.
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has taken federal level court action against Meta, alleging that the tech company is engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct over its publishing of scam advertisements.
The amount of money Australians lost to digital currency scams in 2019 is roughly four times the amount lost in 2018.
