In July last year, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant directed tech companies to develop codes of practice to keep children safe from online porn and harmful content. Now,...
Australia’s online safety laws have fallen well behind leading global efforts and key parts of the legislation are no longer fit for purpose, an expedited review has found, heaping...
Apple has deployed a new safety feature that enables Australian children to flag unwanted nude images directly with the tech giant for referral to the police, pre-empting requirements of...
X has lost its case to invalidate a $610,500 penalty issued by the eSafety Commissioner for inadequately reporting on efforts to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse material last year....
A Bretton Woods-like system for overseeing the takedown of harmful digital online content could fill the gap if the United States fails to crack down on the social media...
Telecommunications industry veteran Luke Coleman has been appointed as chief executive officer at the Communications Alliance, the industry association for the telco sector. He takes over the role from...
The eSafety Commissioner has not backed down from requiring platform tech and generative AI providers to scan and remove child sexual abuse and pro-terror material from their services with...
The eSafety Commissioner has abandoned its Federal Court case against Elon Musk’s X, just days after two prominent US digital rights groups were approved to intervene in the matter....
Digital rights, tech and criminology experts have cast doubt on the federal government’s plan to trial age assurance technology to stop kids accessing online pornography, with warnings that politicking...
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has issued mandatory transparency notices to six of the biggest digital platforms, compelling them to share details about how they mitigate access to terror and violent...