eSafety releases draft Industry Standards & believes in Qanon conspiracy theories

eSafety has released draft Industry Standards that applies to basically every website and app in Australia and any service where people can chat to each other. The headline demand from eSafety is mandatory, proactive and automated monitoring of these services for kiddie porn or terrorist content where "technically feasible" (so E2EE is safe for now), and if not feasible, "take appropriate alternative action". The Commissioner used WhatsApp as an example, who she claims can "pick up on a range of behavioural signals that they've developed over time, and they can scan non-encrypted parts of the services, including profile and group chat names, and things like cheese pizza emojis, which is known to stand for child pornography" - err, the US Qanon nutjob conspiracy theory cheese pizza??? I know the commissioner is a crank, but this is next level naive. Fact sheets explaining the Industry Standards are on eSafety's website.


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