The Digital Duty of Care will place the onus on digital platforms to proactively keep Australians safe and better prevent online harms, said Communications Minister Michelle Rowland.
The proposed changes to the Online Safety Act aim to ban children younger than 16 from platforms like X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, addressing rising online safety concerns.
Rowland emphasized that tech companies would need to take reasonable steps to prevent foreseeable harms, which includes a duty of care framework underpinned by risk assessment.
The legislation would mandate that digital services can't simply apply safety measures and forget them; they must continuously identify and mitigate risks as technology evolves.
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