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Child abuse: Australia queries Meta, Apple, Microsoft

by Sam Adeniyi
August 30, 2022
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Child abuse: Australia queries Meta, Apple, Microsoft
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The Australian government’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued legal notices to a group of US tech companies; Apple Inc., Meta Platform Inc., and Microsoft Inc, operating online platforms in the country.

According to Bloomberg, Grant made the demand in a statement on Tuesday which is the first of such requests under new legislation introduced last year.

The firms have 28 days to report back on what they’re doing to prevent the spread of child exploitation images. Any delay could lead to fines of as much as A$555,000 ($383,000) a day.

“We’ve received these notices and are currently reviewing them,” a spokesperson for Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, said in an emailed statement. “The safety of our users is a top priority and we continue to proactively engage with the eSafety Commissioner on these important issues.”

A spokeswoman for Microsoft said the firm would respond to the notice. Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The responses would help inform government decisions about “what needs to be done to protect Australians online,” Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland said in the government statement. She urged the industry to comply with the commissioner’s requests.

Australia’s Online Safety Bill passed in June 2021 and placed the onus on internet-service companies, rather than government officials, to curb toxic behaviour on their online platforms.

The act also increased the penalty for online abuse and harassment to as many as five years in prison.

The new legislation is just the latest in a series of clashes between Australia and US tech giants. In February 2021, Facebook put a blackout on all news content on its Australian site after Canberra(Australia’s capital) passed laws requiring social media platforms to pay local publishers for using their content.

Eventually, Facebook backed down and agreed to pay some local news organizations to access their stories.

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