Dating app users who harass, threaten or share unwanted explicit photos could have their accounts terminated on multiple platforms in a “world leading” crackdown on online apps. About 75 per cent of online dating programs operating in Australia have signed onto the dating industry code, including Bumble, Grindr, RSVP andContinue Reading
Australia’s online safety regulator has issued a warning to social media giants over concerns about a rise in the spread of violent and extremist material on their platforms, airing warnings about the use of generative AI to facilitate terrorist activity. The eSafety Commission has issued legal notices to Google, Meta,Continue Reading
Optus has been hit with a $1.5m fine after it failed to upload the data of nearly 200,000 customers to a critical emergency database. Australia’s media watchdog said the telco giant was responsible for a “large-scale public safety breach” after it failed to upload customer information to a database usedContinue Reading
Australia’s online safety regulator has urged schools to overhaul their safety policies after recording its first-ever case of school students using artificially-generated sexually explicit material to bully others. Major concerns were flagged during a federal probe into the use of artificial intelligence, during which committee members admitted they were strugglingContinue Reading
More than a billion phone scams have been blocked by service providers in the last year, new figures reveal, with more than 256 million scam calls repelled in the three months to July alone. The Australian Communication and Media Authority’s quarterly report out on Tuesday reveals that while efforts fromContinue Reading
Global telco Modica has become the first company to be breached under new anti-SMS scam rules. An Australian Communications and Media Authority investigation found Modica, a messaging based platform, allowed customers to send SMS using text-based sender identification, including names, without making sufficient checks to ensure they weren’t being usedContinue Reading