Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has been called everything from a “censorship commissar” by the world’s ...

The teenagers have outlasted the ban, the fines, and the AI. Every adult in Australia may be the next to show ID if the ...

The Australian eSafety Commissioner was handed AU$21 million in the 2021-22 Budget earlier this month, with the funding to be spread across software, more staff, and continuing its work on ...

Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant is hopeful the country's new Online Safety Act will go some way to protecting women and girls in the online world as people grapple with how to do ...

The Albanese Government has been urged to explain why it needs the power to create “sock puppet” accounts on social media to push AI-generated content, after the proposed laws were branded “terrifying ...

We know many children and teens are turning to AI chatbots to answer tricky questions, seek help and even find companionship.

MELBOURNE, Australia--An Australian judge fined X Corp. 650,000 Australian dollars ($465,000) on Thursday for failing to provide information to an online safety watchdog in 2023 about how it tackled ...

“While eSafety does not have powers to proactively prevent a livestream from occurring online, online services have responsibilities under Australia’s online safety regulatory framework to protect ...

Australians will be blocked from accessing three popular "nudify" websites linked to the generation of child sexual exploitation material, including students creating fake nude images of classmates.

An eSafety report in July found that most underage social media users were able to keep their accounts or create new ones, largely due to a lack of effective age checks on the platforms.

The office of eSafety says it does not have the power to proactively block the live streaming of a US execution from being available in Australia. It says online services have the responsibility to ...

The social media platform X is expected return to the federal court today to argue why it should not have to hide footage of the Wakeley stabbing. As it stands, the platform is in defiance of orders ...