Tag: Safety

Tighter online safety ‘expectations’ to protect kids

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Digital platforms now face additional online safety standards when deploying generative AI and recommender algorithms through updates to the regulator’s Basic Online Safety Expectations. A key new requirement is...

AI copyright steering committee appointed

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A group of 20 representatives from industry and academia have been appointed to screen the issues to be contemplated by the federal government’s AI and Copyright References Group. Details...

Aust-UK deepen online safety cooperation with new pact

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Australia and United Kingdom have committed to bilateral cooperation on improving digital online safety and security issues under a new intergovernmental agreement. The Memorandum of Understanding includes references to...

$18m for emerging tech research at unis, Data61

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CSIRO’s Data61 has commissioned research projects from five universities into the use of emerging technologies to improve health and safety outcomes at potentially dangerous worksites. Prototype projects will be...

$16m innovation challenge to build bushfire resilience

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A new $16 million innovation competition co-designed by the Minderoo Foundation has been launched by global not-for-profit XPRIZE to drive development of bushfire detection and rapid response technologies. The...

eSafety Commissioner set for funding boost

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The Office of the eSafety Commissioner will likely receive additional funding in the Albanese government’s May Budget, with Labor ministers continuing to criticise the former Coalition government for not...

Industry makes last attempt at online safety codes

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Online safety codes developed by the industry but rejected by the regulator have been redrafted and released for public consultation. It is the final chance for the industry to...