Tag: eSafety Commissioner

eSafety, YouTube spar over under-16s social media ban

Posted on   |  by Byron Kaye
Australia’s internet watchdog and YouTube exchanged barbs on Tuesday after the regulator urged the government to reverse a planned exemption for the Alphabet-owned video-sharing platform from its world-first teen...

Teen social media ban faces a new wildcard: teenagers

Posted on   |  by Byron Kaye
When 13-year-old Jasmine Elkin tried out the age-checking software Australia might use to ban children and teenagers from social media, she was surprised some products could identify a person’s...

Adult content codes redrafted after eSafety pushback

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Local tech industry groups have lodged a set of revised online safety codes designed to protect children from exposure to pornography and age-inappropriate content after earlier drafts were knocked...

Enforcing the social media age ban will cost $50m

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government will spend more than $50 million enforcing Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s over the next four years, as it steps up its oversight of...

Online safety review lands on Rowland’s desk

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
An independent review of Australia’s online safety laws containing more than 60 recommendations for change has been handed to Communications minister Michelle Rowland. Former competition watchdog deputy chair Delia...

Adult content codes zero-in on search and social media

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Search engines and social media giants would be expected to filter, blur and block online pornography and other age-inappropriate content by default for children under the latest set of...

Labor-led committee calls for single Digital Affairs minister

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A Labor-led parliamentary committee has urged the federal government to appoint a Digital Affairs minister to coordinate the regulation of social media and other digital platforms, including across privacy,...