Australia’s eSafety Commissioner will now issue fines if Google and other search engines don’t do enough to identify child users and filter out nudity, violence.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner will now issue fines if Google and other search engines don’t do enough to identify child users and filter out nudity, violence.

Tech giants will be more harshly investigated and will face $99 million fines if they fail to comply with the government’s social media age limit.

Prime minister Anthony Albanese says too many children still on platforms but he is ‘heartened’ by world-leading law

SYDNEY: Australia will double the financial penalty on platforms flouting its world-leading social media ban for under-16s to stem widespread evasion of the restrictions, the…

Australia empowers eSafety commissioner to compel platforms for compliance evidence

New legislation will lift the maximum fine to $68 million for systemic breaches of the regulation and arm the eSafety online watchdog with greater powers.

Canberra says tech platforms are still letting too many children bypass its under-16 social media ban.

Australia said on Saturday it would double the maximum penalty it can impose on tech firms found to have failed to uphold a ground-breaking social media ban for children, as…