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• Tech giants allied against proposed Australia law seeking encrypted data

  New Zealand latest to tighten oversight over access to online communication

• Tech giants to testify on data privacy

  Provides "an opportunity to explain their approaches to privacy"

• Escalating costs see Google’s Alphabet operating margin shrink

  Investors are uncertain about future profit at Alphabet as the company navigates the move to a phone-based computing

• Amazon leading race to $1 trillion market cap

  Shares up 2.69 per cent for a market cap of $768 billion while Alphabet loses 0.39 per cent, trimming its market value to $762 billion

• Gloves come off as Microsoft takes data privacy fight to Supreme Court

  Other companies including IBM, Amazon.com, Apple, Verizon Communications and Alphabet’s Google filed court papers backing Microsoft

• Google parent makes play for enterprise cyber security market

  In the latest move by the company to become a big player in corporate computing