Tag: Office of the esafety commissioner

Social media ban hits 4.7m teen accounts in first month

Posted on   |  by Byron Kaye
Social media companies have collectively deactivated nearly five million accounts belonging to Australian teenagers just a month after a world-first ban on under‑16s took effect, the country’s internet regulator said,...

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...

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...

Apple launches eSafety feature ahead of regulation

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Apple has deployed a new safety feature that enables Australian children to flag unwanted nude images directly with the tech giant for referral to the police, pre-empting requirements of...

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,...