Commissioner’s recommendations for tech companies include measures that have been criticised on privacy grounds.
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Australia’s internet watchdog has accused tech giants including Google and Apple of failing to take action against child sex abuse on their platforms.
In a report released on Wednesday, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said tech platforms were failing to implement various measures to protect children, including scanning cloud services for known abuse material and using language analysis tools to detect attempted sexual extortion in messaging services.
Grant said that Apple and YouTube, which is owned by Google, also failed to track reports of child sex abuse and could not say how long it took them to respond to the reports they received.
