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Australia leads the world in setting new standards for online child safety

The commencement of Australia’s world-leading industry standards marks a significant stride forward in the online protection of children

Parents

Kids

Early and often still the best advice when it comes to online safety

It’s never too early to encourage good online habits, including by modelling consent when taking and sharing photos.

Reporting

Senate Estimates opening address

Thank you Chair for the opportunity to update the Committee on some important recent developments involving the eSafety Commissioner.

Industry

Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Inquiry - Opening statement

Given the powerful role algorithms play in further amplifying content, we would see volumes of mis and disinformation, alongside other forms of online harm, as important indicators of a platform’s overall health.

Children standing on play equipment under a shade cloth

Kids

Learning from the past to safeguard children’s online future

We can no longer accept “risky by design” as the operating principles of our children’s online worlds.

Kids

Coordinated approach critical to protecting kids online

The risks to our children from unsafe online spaces can no longer be ignored.

Industry

Domestic violence

Big tech, address violence against women and girls

We urgently need Big Tech to come to grips with how tech-facilitated gender-based violence is playing out across devices, platforms and services.

Parents

We need to talk

This National Child Protection Week, I have one message to the parents and carers worried about how to keep their kids safe online: I hear you loud and clear.

Image-based abuse

Reporting

Lifting the veil on sextortion

The growing prevalence of this insidious practice – known as sextortion – together with its potentially devastating impact on those affected has prompted some renewed thinking at eSafety about ways we can better respond.

Industry

Research

Eight to two: The abysmal ratio we must factor into gendered violence

This is a sector built by and dominated by men, and that blinds companies to the ways to ways their products can be weaponised against women and girls.

Image-based abuse

Addressing deepfake image-based abuse

There is compelling and concerning data that explicit deepfakes have increased on the internet as much as 550% year on year since 2019.

Kids

Parents

Helping Aussie kids swim between the flags online

Today, I had the opportunity to address the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society, as part of its inquiry into the influence and impacts of social media

Industry

The Global Online Safety Regulators Network: An inaugural year of growth, building trust, and collaboration

In the transformative digital landscape of 2023, we sought to achieve unity and leadership across the domain of online safety regulation

Education

The future of health and wellbeing: AI, the metaverse, and beyond

Welcome to a world where the lines between science fiction and reality blur. A world where AI integrates with the metaverse.

Industry

Tech companies must do more and do better if we are to stem the tide of online child sexual exploitation and abuse

It might be difficult for most of us to confront, but the world is facing an unprecedented explosion in online child sexual exploitation and abuse

Cyberbullying

Parents

Protecting our (increasingly younger) children from cyberbullying

eSafety is urging parents and caregivers to learn about cyberbullying and take on advice as kids head back to school in Term 3.

Education

Better online experiences for First Nations people

The internet brings both benefits and risks, and Australia’s First Nations people know its paradoxical nature better than most.

Reporting

Strong new powers and secure funding allow us to tackle online harms

The May Budget marks the start of a new era for eSafety, by providing baseline funding certainty to take us into the future.

Women

Industry

Building a better online world for women and girls

On International Women’s Day, I call on industry, governments and communities everywhere to join us in working towards a safer online space.

Industry

Having lived Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, what should we expect from Web 3.0?

As we mark the 20th Safer Internet Day, we reflect and learn from lessons of the past to stop future dangers becoming real-world harms.

Parents

Young people

Back-to-school: Ideas to keep kids safe online

A few ways to kick start online safety chats with your kids using our Safer Internet Day theme Connect. Reflect. Protect.

Kids

Education

A matter of principle: guiding the Age Verification Roadmap

Before eSafety completes its Age Verification Roadmap for online pornography, it is worth reflecting the principles guiding its development.

Industry

Compelling safety disclosures from the world's biggest tech firms

eSafety asked the world’s biggest technology companies to reveal what they are – and are not – doing to tackle child sexual abuse.

Parents

Knowing your AR, VR and MR: Today’s tech and what it means for parents

Why virtual reality headsets, haptic gloves and metaverse environments should be on every parent's watchlist before they go on the gift list.

Women

Domestic violence

Gender-based online abuse: 6 things you can do to prevent it this 16 Days

To support 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, we’re calling on Australians of all ages and backgrounds to help us.

Cyberbullying

Kids

Strength in numbers to stop cyberbullying

Evidence shows cyberbullying is increasing, and fortifying families against the harm it can cause should be one of our highest priorities.

Reporting

Tackling individual harms and systemic reform in 2021-22

Another year of fighting the threats we know and preparing well for the ones we know are coming.

Research

Our most at risk believe they must endure the harms

New research released shows just how much we still have to learn when it comes to understanding how online harms affect the most targeted groups.

Industry

The online world needs a 'vaccine' of its own

Platforms themselves must join the community developing online protections, the same way our scientific community developed vaccines.

Industry

Will the peril outweigh the promise of the Metaverse?

The metaverse offers the potential for enormous good alongside great harm. It all depends on the architecture we create to enable and govern it.

Parents

Dangerous or damaging online challenges are never funny

Parents and educators can help arm young people against online challenges that show participants being harmed or humiliated.

Industry

Reporting

Shadow pandemic of child sexual exploitation requires concerted global effort

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve experienced a veritable tsunami of child sexual exploitation material washing across the internet.

Women

Research

International Women’s Day: Break the bias on online abuse

eSafety's latest research shows 1 in 3 women were abuse online in a work context.

Research

Education

Join us in celebrating Safer Internet Day

This year we mark 18 years of this global event that started as a European Union initiative in 2004 and is now celebrated on 8 February annually across the world.

Industry

Global project combating online child abuse marks five years

During the pandemic eSafety has reached new heights when it comes to the removal of online images and videos of child exploitation.

Women

Domestic violence

Women should be heard and safe both online and offline

eSafety is elevating women’s voices to encourage safer online interactions during 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.

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