{"id":1021075,"date":"2026-07-15T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021075"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:08:14","slug":"australia-flags-significant-gaps-in-apple-meta-google-efforts-to-tackle-child-sexual-abuse-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/australia-flags-significant-gaps-in-apple-meta-google-efforts-to-tackle-child-sexual-abuse-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia flags \u2018significant gaps\u2019 in Apple, Meta, Google efforts to tackle child sexual abuse, extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tech companies, including Apple, Meta and Google, have &#8220;significant gaps&#8221; in tackling child sexual abuse and the growing threat of online sexual extortion, Australia&#8217;s internet regulator said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Online platforms are failing to use available technologies that can identify well-known coercion scripts used by sexual extortion offenders, eSafety said in a transparency report. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In several cases, we have provided these platforms with evidence of how their services are being colonised by criminals to devastating impact, with clear guidance on how to stem the abuse,&#8221; said eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tech companies, including Apple, Meta and Google, have &#8220;significant gaps&#8221; in tackling child sexual abuse and the growing threat of online sexual extortion, Australia&#8217;s internet regulator said on Tuesday. Online platforms are failing to use available technologies that can identify well-known coercion scripts used by sexual extortion offenders, eSafety said in a transparency report. &#8220;In several cases, we have provided these platforms with evidence of how their services are being colonised by criminals to devastating impact, with clear guidance on how to stem the abuse,&#8221; said eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021086,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021075\/revisions\/1021086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}