Tech giants doing too little on abuse content, says Australian govt report

Global technology giants are doing too little to remove video and images of child sexual exploitation from their own digital platforms, according to an Australian government report.

Using new legislation, Australian e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant compelled firms ranging from Meta Inc.-owned Facebook to Microsoft Corp.’s Skype to disclose how they tackled the issue. The report released Thursday highlighted their inadequate use of detection technology and response times that can stretch to days.

Apple Inc. and Microsoft don’t pro-actively detect child abuse material stored on their iCloud and OneDrive services, despite the wide availability of identifying technology, the report found.