Some of the world's biggest technology companies, like Microsoft and Apple, aren't doing enough to prevent the spread of child sexual exploitation on their platforms, according Australia's e-Safety Commissioner.
A world first study has found tech companies aren't proactively searching for child exploitation material in streaming and cloud services
After years of talking with the companies, the commissioner used new laws that allowed her to send questions to Apple, Facebook's owner Meta, WhatsApp, Microsoft, Skype, Snap and Omegle, demanding they answer what they were doing to tackle the issue. "The kind of child sexual exploitation that we're talking about is known child sexual exploitation and the tools like photo DNA have been around since 2009," Ms Inman Grant said.
Ms Inman Grant said she expected governments across the globe would look to her report, further adding pressure on the tech companies to do more.
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