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Leveling the online playing field: Asia-Pacific regulators go after GAFA
25 February 2019 00:00
Duration: 14:02
They are the Titans of their markets. But the blow-back has now begun. Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, collectively known as GAFA, have had the heat turned up on them in the past year as regulators in Asia-Pacific have gone after them over problems ranging from data privacy to dominance abuse and other competition issues. MLex Australia Senior Correspondent Laurel Henning and MLex Japan Senior Correspondent Toko Sekiguchi look at how three key countries in the region are taking a tougher line on tech's Big Four and the regulatory challenges they have triggered.
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Editorial Team
Laurel Henning Senior Correspondent

Laurel is a senior correspondent specializing in competition law, data privacy and security, in Australia and New Zealand. Laurel reports from Sydney on criminal-cartel legislation and white-collar crime, as well as competition and consumer lawsuits involving companies including Google, Meta Platforms and Apple. While at MLex Laurel has also reported boardroom disputes and shareholder campaigns agitating for changes to company strategy. Laurel joined MLex in 2013 and reported for five years on European energy and... Read more
Toko Sekiguchi Senior Correspondent, Tokyo

Toko is a senior correspondent in Tokyo covering antitrust, anti-bribery & corruption, financial services and regulatory issues in Japan. Before joining MLex, she has worked as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones News, Bloomberg News and Time Magazine.