Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant has rejected the practicality of a know your customer-type regime for social media companies to verify the identities of their users. Addressing ...

Australia's eSafety Commissioner is set to receive sweeping new powers like the ability to order the removal of material that seriously harms adults, with the looming passage of the Online Safety Act.

An Australian court upheld an order on Friday for Elon Musk's X to pay a fine of A$610,500 ($418,000) for failing to cooperate with a regulator's request for information about anti-child-abuse ...

Elon Musk’s X and Canadian activist Chris Elston have scored a major win against the eSafety Commission and transgender activist Teddy Cook in a landmark ruling from the Administrative Review ...

In 2023–24, the eSafety Commissioner received over 7,270 reports about image-based abuse, including deepfakes. It issued removal requests for content hosted across more than 947 locations on 191 ...

Australians logged into their search engine accounts on Google and Microsoft will have their age checked by the end of 2025 based on an online safety regulation, which the eSafety Commissioner ...

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has recommended that YouTube be included in the under-16s’ social media ban. Lukas Coch/AAP ...

Google has informed Australian authorities it received more than 250 complaints globally over nearly a year that its artificial intelligence software was used to make deepfake terrorism material.

The eSafety Commissioner has abandoned the legal case to try to force X – formerly Twitter – to remove footage of the April stabbing attack on a Sydney bishop from the platform worldwide.