| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.05.2024 | NIST Reports First Results From Age Estimation Software Evaluation | If a person (in this case, a NIST staff member) changes facial expression or wears and then removes eyeglasses, all six of the algorithms NIST evaluated give age estimates that vary around the person’s true age. With frames extracted from a... |
| 29.05.2024 | Elon Musk’s Broken Clock Moment: Standing Up To Australia’s Censorship Overreach | Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed ‘free speech absolutist,’ rarely gets it right when it comes to actual free speech. But he deserves a rare round of applause in his fight against Australia’s global speech injunction.
We’ve had many posts deta... |
| 08.05.2024 | Combatting Deepfakes in Australia: Content Credentials is the Start | There is growing consensus on how to address the challenge of deepfakes in media and businesses, generated through technologies such as AI. Earlier this year, Google announced that it was joining the Coalition for Content Provenance and Aut... |
| 11.01.2024 | Elon Musk’s X reinstated 6,000 banned accounts finds Australia safety regulator | Australia’s eSafety commissioner has blasted the social media platform X after it found that over 6000 banned accounts have been reinstated following Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media giant.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner launched ... |
| 22.11.2023 | Italy Wants To Save Its Children, Too | In Italy, an age-verification coalition against porn is getting traction. On September 4th, the Minister of Family Eugenia Roccella, representing the right-wing majority, initiated consultations for introducing a law to prevent minors from ... |
| 20.11.2023 | Australia's Internet Watchdog to Draft Industry Standards for Tech Giants to Combat Online Child Abuse, Pro-Terror Material | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 20 November 2023, 07:11 am
Australia's eSafety Commissioner has initiated the process of drafting industry standards designed to urge major technology companies, including Meta, Apple, and Google, to take more dec... |
| 23.10.2023 | What will AI rules for business look like? These Australian regulators have shared some clues | (L-R) Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; Angelene Falk, Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner; Nerida O’Loughlin PSM, Chair, Australian Communications and Media Authority; Julie... |
| 16.10.2023 | Австралийский регулятор оштрафовал Х из-за нежелания подробно отчитаться о мерах борьбы с запрещённым контентом... | Австралийский регулятор eSafety (в области безопасности в Интернете) оштрафовал соцсеть Х (ранее Twitter) из‑за нежелания предоставить информацию о мерах борьбы с распространением запрещённого контента, в том числе с сексуальной эскплуатаци... |
| 16.10.2023 | Australia fines X for failing to provide information about child abuse content | eSafety, the Australian regulator for online safety, issued a $386,000 fine against X (formerly Twitter) Monday for failing to answer “key questions” about the action the platform is taking against child abuse content.
The watchdog issued l... |
| 31.08.2023 | Australian Government, Of All Places, Says Age Verification Is A Privacy & Security Nightmare | In the past I’ve sometimes described Australia as the land where internet policy is completely upside down. Rather than having a system that protects intermediaries from liability for third party content, Australia went the opposite directi... |
| 11.07.2023 | Commissioner Mack Bernard Raises over $60,000 for Florida Senate District 24 Race | Mack Bernard
Fundraising haul highlights Bernard’s local and legislative experience PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, July 11, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Palm Beach County Commissioner Mack Bernard and candidate for Florida Senate D... |
| 22.06.2023 | Australia is threatening to fine Elon Musk's Twitter up to $475,000, saying that a third of all online hate complaints in the country come via the platform | Australia's safety watchdog said Twitter is the most complained about platform in the country for online hate.
It is demanding an explanation from Twitter about the issue, or it could issue a fine of up to $475,000.
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| 22.06.2023 | Australia's Safety Watchdog Issues Legal Notice to Twitter Seeking Measures to Address Online Hate | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 22 June 2023, 07:06 am
Australia's eSafety Commissioner has initiated a significant move to address the pressing issue of online hate on Twitter.
The country's safety watchdog has issued a legal notice to Twitter,... |
| 21.06.2023 | Australia plans to mandate file scanning for all tech companies | Image: Adobe Stock
Australia has decided to aggressively target online child sexual abuse material and pro-terror content. To do so, it plans to force all technology companies to actively scan content for such material.
Consequently, Austra... |
| 31.05.2023 | Meta and TikTok handed users' data to Aus authorities 3654 times last year | Meta and TikTok complied with 3654 of 4517 requests for user data from Australian authorities relating to 5338 accounts last year.
The statistics are included in the platforms’ latest biannual transparency reports.
Google and Microsoft are ... |
| 26.05.2023 | Gov-issued takedowns spiked after new eSafety laws came into force | A spike in the amount of online content Australian authorities removed last year coincided with the chief content moderator gaining new takedown powers.
Google and TikTok reported a sizeable increase in content items and accounts removed in... |
| 04.04.2023 | Gov agencies get websites blocked without using s313 powers | Australian government agencies are making direct, "informal" approaches to internet providers and telcos to block access to websites, rather than continue to use a controversial power in the Telecommunications Act.
The use of &quo... |
| 28.03.2023 | Queensland MP wants eSafety to enforce "criminal post" takedowns | A private member's bill to stop an alleged surge in youths streaming criminal exploits to their TikTok and Instagram followers was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday.
Liberal minister Garth Hamilton told parliament that he... |
| 24.02.2023 | eSafety grills Twitter, Google, TikTok, Discord and Twitch | Australia’s top content moderator has given Twitter, Google, TikTok, Twitch and Discord 35 days to outline how they’re detecting child abuse material and stopping their algorithms from amplifying it.
The platforms were yesterday served lega... |
| 22.02.2023 | Meta says expanding E2EE won't stop child abuse material detection | Meta has said its plans to extend default end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to all its messaging services during 2023 won’t make child abuse material harder to censor because of the company’s use of metadata analysis and proactive account blocki... |
| 17.02.2023 | Platforms “doing shockingly little” to detect abuse material says eSafety Commissioner | After rejecting industry associations’ draft codes for filtering harmful content the eSafety Commissioner has said platforms need broader commitments to detect child abuse material.
The content moderation watchdog has “a strong expectation ... |
| 24.01.2023 | Finally Some Clear Thinking on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Investigation and Intervention | President Biden recently told Big Tech he’s coming after them. Whether the administration will succeed is questionable—the Frightful Five have a strong lobbying presence in Washington—but one thing is clear: The climate in D.C. around the t... |
| 19.01.2023 | Commissioner Downing Announces $424,500 Settlement with Cryptocurrency Company Nexo Capital | CSI Seeking to Identify Montana Investors in Interest-Bearing Crypto Accounts
Helena, Mont.- Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Troy Downing announced today that a settlement in principle has been reached between Nexo Capital, Inc. (N... |
| 30.08.2022 | eSafety office uses powers to demand answers from 'big tech' | eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant will issue "legal notices" to Apple, Meta (including its WhatsApp operation), Microsoft (including Skype), Snap, and Omegle, requiring them to detail anti-child-exploitation measures.
The not... |
| 01.08.2022 | Fake Hog’s Breath Cafe Instagram account confuses diners, draws new attention to small business protections online | Source: Hog's Breath Cafe
The short and seemingly random life of an Instagram account satirising Hog’s Breath Cafe has highlighted how easy it is for social media users to misrepresent major brands, drawing new attention to the ways small b... |
| 05.05.2022 | World Password Day: Four things you can do to protect yourself online | Source: Unsplash/Kaitlyn Baker
Today is World Password Day — the perfect opportunity to ensure we are doing all we can to manage our online logins. It’s scary to think that one of the easiest ways for cybercriminals to get their hands on th... |
| 09.12.2021 | Cyber harassment: A growing concern in the age of COVID | The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly transformed various aspects of our daily lives. With lockdown measures springing around the world, our new "normal" now relies (even) more on digital platforms. Since March 2020, global inte... |
| 22.09.2021 | McAfee : “School Should Be Teaching Online Safety” says 80% of Aussie Parents | Despite the old adage that it takes a village to raise a child, new research from McAfee shows that an overwhelming majority (80%) of Aussies believe schools should be taking the lead in teaching our kids about online safety.
At the time of... |
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| 19.03.2021 | Valuing a game for kids: why is video game Roblox worth US$38 billion? | Source: Unsplash/Alex Haney.
When the children’s digital game Roblox launched on the New York Stock Exchange last week, the company’s share price rapidly took off. By the end of the day, it was valued at US$38 billion ($49 billion).
How can... |
| 22.10.2020 | A spike in incidents: What makes Zoom meetings and virtual workplaces so ripe for harassment? | Jeffrey Toobin. Source: AP/Charles Dharapak.
New Yorker analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended for exposing his genitals to staffers during a Zoom meeting. Toobin says the incident was an accident, believing he was off-camera.... |
| 05.07.2019 | School chaplain cyberbullying FAQs pulled after iTnews security story | Cyberbullying detection training has commenced for Australia’s School Chaplains, the federally-funded guardians of school students’ wellbeing.
But the program botched its FAQ for the program, which initially advised that Chaplains would nee... |
| 10.04.2019 | Australia’s New Social Media Law Is a Mess | When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on March 30 that the internet could use more regulation of “harmful content,” maybe he should have been more specific. Less than a week after Zuckerberg’s statement, Australia’s Parliament passed the ... |
| 08.11.2017 | To Fight Revenge Porn, Facebook Wants You To Send Nudes: Wait, What? | Carl Velasco, Tech Times 08 November 2017, 08:11 am
Facebook has announced an odd way to fight revenge porn. It sounds completely ridiculous, but on second thought, it actually makes sense.
Revenge porn, or the publishing of pornographic im... |
| 12.10.2015 | Scare-mongering about kids and social media helps no-one | - |
| - | eSafety's online storage and message scans "not technically good" solution says Fastmail | Melbourne-headquartered email hosting provider Fastmail has said that the eSafety Commissioner’s proposed industry standards, requiring message and online file-storage providers to scan content, pose risks to users’ privacy.
Credit: Fastmai... |
| - | eSafety and foreign regulators to sync content bans and oversight schemes | Eight nations are syncing their content restriction, user surveillance, corporate disclosure and other oversight powers aimed at mitigating online harms.
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant.
Australian, UK, French, Korean, South African,... |
| - | eSafety lays out industry standards enforcing online message and file scans | Platforms like Google Drive and Facebook Messenger would be scanned for illegal material under enforceable standards proposed by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner.
The requirements for detecting, disrupting and removing child sexual abuse an... |
| - | Gov plans anti-doxxing laws | The government plans to draft anti-doxxing laws after the leak of a group chat for coordinating deplatforming campaigns against critics of Israel exposed 600 people's details.
Doxxing, according to the eSafety Commissioner — “is the intenti... |
| - | Google handed user data to Aus authorities 5525 times last year | Google complied with 5525 of 6335 requests from Australian authorities to disclose user information relating to 7183 accounts last year.
The latest instalment of Google’s biannual transparency reports - user information disclosures - follow... |
| - | X unbanned 6103 Aussie accounts after takeover | X, formerly Twitter, lifted bans on 6103 Australian users, including 194 banned for hateful content in the six months to May 2023.
A month after Elon Musk’s October 2022 takeover, he announced “a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provi... |
| - | X calls takedown orders over Sydney stabbing video "unlawful" | X has flouted orders to remove footage of a stabbing at a church in Sydney’s south west last week, saying Australia's eSafety watchdog has no authority to block Australians’ posts from its global userbase.
Julie Inman Grant
“The Australian ... |
| - | Australia is preparing for another showdown with Big Tech — this time over defamatory posts | Australia has been “at the forefront” of establishing legal and regulatory framework for social media giants, and plans to continue keeping them accountable, said Communications Minister Paul Fletcher.
After passing a law this year that req... |
| - | Insta's AI finds nudes in encrypted DMs | Instagram nudes sent or received by under-18s will be detected and blurred with device-based software able to scan end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) direct messages (DMs).
The launch of the client-side feature coincides with Facebook Messenger’s ... |
| - | Musk’s X wins court reprieve in fight against Australian government over church stabbing videos | Elon Musk’s social media platform X won a reprieve Monday after an Australian court refused to extend a temporary order to block videos of a Sydney church stabbing.
A federal court judge has denied a bid by Australia’s online watchdog eSafe... |
| - | Как metaverse изменит дружбу и почему зумеры так одиноки? | NFT-клятвы, пользователи за $0,16, социальные связи в metaverse, вред одиночества и при чем тут дейтинги. Стартап waka делится трендами в поведении пользователей и тем, как благодаря статье на vc избавились от багов.
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| - | Asian tech roundup: The great Alibaba split | Australia
Fund manager Australian Perpetual has suffered an outage related to an IT security incident, which affected some of its funds. The outage affected about 45,000 clients. Source
The ALPHV/BlackCat gang has stolen more than 4TB of da... |
| - | X CEO Linda Yaccarino accuses Australia of ‘overreach’ after judge lifts ban on stabbing video | In a talk onstage at the Viva Tech conference in Paris, X CEO Linda Yaccarino accused Australia of “overreach” over its decision to ban videos of a Sydney church stabbing.
The Elon Musk-owned social media platform X last week won a reprieve... |
