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The eSafety Commissioner has just warned how AI tools have ‘significantly escalated’ safety risks around sharing photos and videos online.
Research shows young Australians are most at risk of experiencing gambling harm.
Sextortion is a form of online blackmail where a perpetrator coerces or tricks a victim into sending intimate images. New research shows it’s on the rise.
Australia’s proposed digital duty of care will ask social media platforms to actively prevent harm.
Success will rely significantly on parents’ abilities – and children’s willingness – to engage with these new tools.
An app doesn’t have to be ‘educational’ to be included in Google’s ‘Teacher Approved’ section.
The new safety features could help reduce online harm – but they ask a lot of parents.
New rules aimed at protecting kids online are now in force, but a major porn company has all but shut down its Australian presence instead.
It’s possible to provide truly anonymous age checks online – but it takes investment.
Rejection is unfortunately very common on dating apps. Remind yourself it isn’t personal, even if if feels like it.
The ban may keep some children out, but it does nothing to fix the harmful architecture awaiting them when they return.
It comes at a time when the online gaming giant faces several lawsuits and growing calls to be included in Australia’s social media ban.
Young people repeatedly mentioned that adults are not sufficiently involved or do not understand what children and teenagers do online.
There is no standardised way of defining or measuring psychological harm or distress in the online world.
When you’re doing your best to work from home with the kids around, it’s pretty difficult to monitor what they are doing on the tablet or TV.
AI-generated deepfake abuse material is easy to create – but there’s plenty we can do to stop it spreading in our schools.
Teenagers may think that misinformation is limited to certain kinds of content.
What happens next when your data is leaked in a data breach like the one at Qantas? Cyber criminals have creative ways to get what they want.
The digital world can be a vital space of empowerment and connection for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Sexologist & Lecturer and Research Fellow in Communications & Culture, Edith Cowan University
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Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Law; Academic Co-Lead, CSAM Deterrence Centre, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor Digital Technologies for Learning | ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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PhD candidate researching children's play in digital games, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Technologies for Learning, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer, Monash University
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Associate Professor, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Docteur en sciences de l'information et de la communication, chercheur associé laboratoire DICEN Ile de France, Université Gustave Eiffel