Global tech giants will be forced to tackle child sexual abuse material and pro-terror content on their platforms under two new standards to be enforced by Australia’s eSafety commissioner.
From Dec. 22, tech companies Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta will be required to take “meaningful steps” to stop this harmful content being stored, distributed or generated under the ‘world first’ standards.
In what eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant described as a world-first, “nudify apps” and AI tools used to create pornography are also explicitly targeted under the standards.
Inman Grant said the standards were a significant step forward in the battle to protect children online and could have global implications for tech firms….
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