Australia’s online safety laws gain momentum and follow the UK’s direction to prioritise safety by design platforms which deploy age assurance tools.
Children are particularly vulnerable to the exploitation of internet-based services, and harmful content published online for their age group, which can be easily discovered or searched. Platforms are willing to promote this damaging content for commercial reasons.
Today, a MoU agreement signed with the UK will enforce the commitments of The Online Safety Act of 2021, which came into force on 23 January 2022.
The scope of this MoU will build on the historic partnership between both countries and be further reaching across many policy areas including, age assurance, safety technology, online media and digital literacy, gender bias technology, user privacy, online scams, and the impact of new technologies like AI.
