The Latest Breaking News from eSafety

Parliamentary inquiry told police forced to ‘cobble together’ laws to prosecute man who allegedly spread deepfake images of women

Regulator gives industry groups six months to come up with draft code, expected to include rules about age verification

Debate continues to rage in Australia over whether children should (or can) be banned from social media. Following politicians’ recent promises to ban those under 16 from the platforms, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has raised concerns that imposing age restrictions could push children to use social media in secret…

Minors could also miss crucial support under a potential ban, online safety regulator’s office tells inquiry

Tech companies providing end-to-end encryption, including Apple, pushed for the changes, warning of mass government surveillance

A court hearing scheduled for Wednesday has been cancelled after Keith ‘Keef’ Leech agrees to delete internal company files

Young boys struggling with what it means to be a man need positive role models online as they're targeted with harmful content, the eSafety commissioner says.

The opposition leader’s announcement that age verification would be a Coalition government priority is a big promise that technology may not be able to fulfil

This week, about 50 female students from Victoria’s Bacchus Marsh Grammar School had fake, sexually explicit images of them shared without their consent on Instagram and Snapchat. Images of their faces, purportedly obtained from social media, were stitched onto pornographic images using artificial intelligence (AI).

eSafety Commissioner drops Federal Court case against X Corp over stabbing video, citing cost. Legal action continues in Administrative Appeals Tribunal. E...

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has dropped its Federal Court case against X relating to tweets distributing the footage of the Wakeley church stabbing.