Google, Meta Pressed to Ramp up Efforts to Tackle Child Abuse Material

Published on July 24, 2024

Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple will need to compile a report every six months to the eSafety Commission explaining how they are dealing with child abuse material on their platforms. The eSafety office also requires social media services, including Discord and WhatsApp, to go into more detail and outline how they are tackling deep fake material of children generated with AI, live-streamed abuse, and sexual extortion, on top of child abuse material. Failure to respond could result in services being fined up to $782,500 (US$517,000) a day. eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said the notices aimed to pressure tech giants into increasing their efforts to protect children online....

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