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Experts cast more doubt on age assurance tech

The government’s search and social media age restrictions have prompted sharp warnings from academics, industry groups and civil society organisations, who argue the age assurance technologies being relied on...

Search engines push back on ‘platform’ label in eSafety debate

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The Australian Information Industry Association has urged lawmakers to recognise that search engines are not social media platforms and should be regulated differently, as senators pressed industry groups on...

NSW criminalises sexually explicit deepfakes

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The Minns Government has passed new laws criminalising the creation and sharing of sexually explicit deepfakes, expanding New South Wales’ framework against image-based abuse to try and keep pace...

Australia introduces age assurance for porn sites, AI chat bots

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Pornographic websites and providers of AI companion bots will be required to check Australian users’ ages from next year, after the online safety regulator accepted industry’s plans to restrict...

Opposition demands release of eSafety research on YouTube ban

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The federal Opposition has demanded that government release the research underpinning the eSafety Commissioner’s decision to include YouTube in its social media ban, saying the uncertainty of incomplete information...

eSafety Commissioner to register three adult content codes

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says her office will register three industry-prepared online safety codes to protect children from exposure to pornography and age-inappropriate content. The codes, which cover...

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...