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Digital Duty of Care: What we know so far

Social media users could switch off recommender algorithms in their social media feeds, under new draft laws the Australian government plans to unveil this week. The proposed Digital Duty...

Roblox court-enforceable undertaking on child safety

Posted on   |  by Byron Kaye
 Australia’s internet regulator secured a court-enforceable undertaking from Roblox to improve protections against grooming and sexual exploitation, after tests found adult strangers could still contact children despite safety measures...

OpenAI beefs up teen guardrails as new safety laws loom

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
OpenAI has unveiled new teen safety controls on ChatGPT, automatically restricting the experience when its age prediction systems flag an underage user, as pressure mounts on tech giants over...

Meta lobbies for legal immunity from child-harm lawsuits

Posted on   |  by Jody Godoy
Meta Platforms has lobbied the US Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young...

eSafety Commissioner sees common cause with US as age ban begins

Posted on   |  by Byron Kaye
The regulator overseeing Australia’s world-first teen social media ban rejected the “technological exceptionalism” championed by mostly US-based platforms and said a groundswell of American parents wanted similar measures. eSafety...

Online regulator goes after AI ‘nudify’ services

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s online safety regulator has issued a formal warning to a UK-based company it says is responsible for AI-enabled services being used to create deepfake pornography of Australian school...

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...

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...