Tag: Office of the esafety commissioner

Technology policy in Australia: A 2023 report card

Posted on   |  by Jordan Guiao
Laws are only as good as the ability to enforce them, and in 2023 technology policy was accompanied by concerns with our regulators and their various roles and abilities...

Twitter fined, Google warned over eSafety reporting

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has fined X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, more than $600,000 for failing to answer questions on the steps it is taking to...

Search engines face new rules on AI-generated content

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Google and other search engines will face new obligations in Australia to prevent AI functionality on their platforms from being used to generate “synthetic” child abuse material under a...

Govt criticised for ‘passing the buck’ on age verification

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Child protection advocates and the federal Opposition have criticised the Albanese government’s decision not to introduce a mandatory age verification regime for online pornography and other adult content. But...

Online age verification: Govt opts for codes over tech mandate

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government will not introduce a mandatory age verification regime for online pornography and other adult content, after existing technology options were found to be immature, and will...

Tech giants could face new file scanning rules by year-end

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s eSafety regulator is working to have online safety standards that will force tech giants to scan cloud storage services for illegal and harmful internet content in place before...

Online safety tsar rejects two industry codes

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has rejected two of the eight online safety codes developed by local tech industry associations for failing to provide “appropriate community safeguards” and...