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SYDNEY: An Australian regulator sent legal letters to Facebook owner Meta<\/a> Platforms, Apple<\/a> Inc and Microsoft<\/a> Corp demanding they share their strategies for stamping out child abuse material on their platforms or face fines.
The e-Safety Commissioner, a body set up to protect internet users, said it used laws which took effect in January to compel the technology giants to disclose measures they were taking to detect and remove abuse material within 28 days. If they did not, the companies would each face a fine of A$555,000 ($383,000) per day.
The threat underscores Australia<\/a>'s hardline approach to regulating Big Tech firms since 2021 which has so far included laws forcing them to pay media outlets for displaying their content and laws making them hand over details of anonymous accounts which post defamatory material.
The internet firms have meanwhile been under pressure around the world to find a way to monitor encrypted messaging and streaming services for child abuse material without encroaching on user privacy.
\"This activity is no longer confined to hidden corners of the dark web but is prevalent on the mainstream platforms we and our children use every day,\" said commissioner Julie Inman Grant in a statement.
\"As more companies move towards encrypted messaging services and deploy features like livestreaming, the fear is that this horrific material will spread unchecked on these platforms,\" she added.
A spokeperson for Microsoft, which owns video calling service Skype<\/a>, said the company had received the letter and planned to respond within 28 days.
A spokesperson for Meta, which also owns messaging service WhatsApp, said the company was still reviewing the letter but continued to \"proactively engage with the eSafety Commissioner on these important issues\".
Apple, which owns video messaging service FaceTime, messaging service iMessage and photo storing service iCloud<\/a>, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
The eSafety Commissioner referred to figures provided by the U.S. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which said this year it had received 29.1 million reports of child abuse material from internet companies, of which just 160 were from Apple while 22 million were from Facebook.
($1 = 1.4499 Australian dollars)
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澳大利亚要求苹果,元,微软滥用分享步骤,可能罚款
e-Safety专员一体设置保护互联网用户,表示,1月份生效法律强迫使用科技巨头披露他们采取措施来检测并移除28天内滥用物质。
悉尼:一个澳大利亚监管机构向Facebook老板发信法律元平台,苹果公司和微软公司要求他们分享他们的策略铲除虐待儿童的材料在他们的平台上,否则将面临罚款。
e-Safety专员一体设置保护互联网用户,表示,1月份生效法律强迫使用科技巨头披露他们采取措施来检测并移除28天内滥用物质。如果他们没有,公司都将面临罚款每天555000美元(383000美元)。
威胁了澳大利亚的强硬的方法来管理大型科技公司自2021年以来,到目前为止包括法律迫使他们向媒体展示其内容和法律让他们交出匿名账户发布诽谤材料的细节。
互联网公司都同时被世界各地的压力下找到一个方法来监控虐待儿童内容的加密消息和流媒体服务不侵犯用户隐私。
”这个活动已不再局限于隐藏的黑暗角落web但流行主流平台上我们和我们的孩子每天使用,”曼专员朱莉格兰特在一份声明中说。
“随着越来越多的公司走向加密消息服务和部署功能,如转播画面,令人担心的是,这种可怕的材料将不受控制的在这些平台上传播,”她补充道。
微软的spokeperson,拥有视频通话服务Skype表示,该公司收到了信,计划在28天内作出回应。
发言人元,还拥有通讯服务WhatsApp,表示,该公司仍在审视这封信但继续“主动参与eSafety专员在这些重要问题”。
苹果公司拥有视频通讯服务FaceTime,消息传递服务iMessage和照片存储服务iCloud没有立即回复寻求置评的电子邮件。
eSafety专员所提供的数据,美国国家失踪及被剥削儿童中心今年表示,已收到2910万的报告虐待儿童从互联网公司材料,其中只有160人从苹果从Facebook在2200万年。
(1美元= 1.4499澳元)
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