This open-letter, signed by over 140 Australian academics, international experts, and civil society organisations, addresses the proposal to ‘ban’ children from social media until the age of 16. They argue that a ‘ban’ is too blunt an instrument to address risks effectively and that any restrictions must be designed with care.

The Bill amends the Privacy Act 1988 to implement an initial tranche of reforms arising from the proposals of a review.

This working paper examines multimodal foundation models (MFMs), a type of generative artificial intelligence (AI) that can process and output multiple data types, such as text, images and audio. It discusses some of the implications of this technology for consumer protection, competition, the media and information environment, privacy, and online safety within the digital platform...

This report follows a legal examination to determine whether the State of South Australia could legislate a ban on access to social media services by children under 14 and to restrict access to social media services by children between the ages of 14 and 16 by requiring parental consent to their access. The report also...

Technology facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is not an in­tractable problem. This report, drawing on a case study around the online harassment of Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, assesses the state of research on TFGBV as well as recent global policy progress made on this issue, and offers a number of practical solutions to make...