Australia’s internet regulator reportedly announced today that Big Tech companies including Apple, Meta and Google have significant gaps in their efforts to tackle sexual abuse and the mounting cyber risk of sexual extortion.

According to an eSafety transparency report, online platforms are failing to use technology that can identify the prominent coercion scripts used by sexual extortion offenders.

In this connection, eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant said: “In several cases, we have provided these platforms with evidence of how their services are being colonised by criminals to........

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