New international guidelines aimed at improving the safety of youngsters using social networking sites will be released today but privacy advocates are concerned that no young Australians were consulted.
ISPs will be granted a one-off government subsidy towards the cost of installing filtering technology as part of the Rudd government's AU$125.8 million cybersafety plan.
Australia's highest-trafficked Web site, ninemsn, today announced a partnership with the Internet education and safety advisory body, NetAlert, to address online child safety issues.
The federal government's plan to provide a free child-safe Internet filter to every Australian family is progressing, with the Commonwealth today calling for industry help with the technical details of the idea.
Wise heads have already dismissed the idea of filtering pornography at the Internet service provider level, and rightly so.
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