{"id":1192965,"date":"2023-10-16T15:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192965"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:43:58","slug":"australian-regulators-fine-x-for-dodging-questions-about-csam-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192965","title":{"rendered":"Australian regulators fine X for dodging questions about CSAM response"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia has fined<\/a> X (formerly Twitter) for failing to answer all its questions about child exploitation. The country\u2019s government levied a penalty of AUD 610,500 (around $387,000) for the Elon Musk-owned company\u2019s non-compliance with a national law requiring social platforms to disclose how they\u2019re combating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM).<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies can make empty statements like \u2018Child exploitation is our top priority,\u2019 so what we\u2019re saying is show us,\u201d Julie Inman Grant, Australia\u2019s eSafety Commissioner, told<\/a> The New York Times<\/em> in an interview. \u201cThis is important not only in terms of deterrence in the types of defiance we are seeing from the companies but because this information is in the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Australian officials said neither X nor Google fully complied with the questions. While Google received a formal warning for \u201cgiving generic or aggregated information across multiple services where information regarding specific services was required,\u201d X\u2019s violation \u201cwas more serious.\u201d Inman Grant said X failed to reply adequately to questions while leaving other boxes blank. \u201cIn other instances, Twitter provided a response that was otherwise incomplete or inaccurate,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

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The official says her department sent a notice to X (then Twitter) on February 22, asking it to fulfill its report by answering mandatory questions; she gave the company 35 days to reply. The company responded on March 29. Inman Grant wrote that she identified 14 questions (including sub-questions) where the firm failed to provide the required info. Her office sent follow-up questions on April 6. Musk\u2019s company responded on May 5, leading Inman Grant to conclude the company had held back info in its initial response. She wrote, \u201cIt is evident from many of X Corp.\u2019s subsequent responses that it held information required by the Notice and was capable of providing that information at first instance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inman Grant wrote that the nation can seek civil penalties through the courts if X doesn\u2019t pay the fine. And more compliance tools are on the way. \u201cWe also have more powerful systemic tools coming online next year in the form of industry codes and standards which will ensure companies are living up to their responsibilities to protect children,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

As highlighted by The NYT<\/em>, X told the Australian regulators, \u201cChildren are not our target customer, and our service is not overwhelmingly used by children.\u201d However, CEO Linda Yaccarino recently said in a forum that Gen Z was the platform\u2019s fastest-growing demographic, with 200 million unique monthly visitors among teens and young adults in their 20s.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/australian-regulators-fine-x-for-dodging-questions-about-csam-response-194358319.html?src=rss
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Australia has fined X (formerly Twitter) for failing to answer all its questions about child exploitation. The country\u2019s government levied a penalty of AUD 610,500 (around $387,000) for the Elon Musk-owned company\u2019s non-compliance with a national law requiring social platforms … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1192965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}