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Online search engines have made it very easy for us to find information. But for kids, they can also be a gateway to adult – and potentially harmful – content.
A new online safety code that comes into force later this week aims to tackle this problem. Among other measures, it will require providers of online search services such as Google to blur thumbnail images of pornographic and violent material for users who are not logged in.
This is just one of several new online safety codes coming in the new year. And as Lisa Given writes, these codes will bring new levels of control around how people engage with the internet.
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Lisa M. Given, RMIT University
The new year will bring new controls over what you see online – such as blurring pornographic or violent search results if you’re not logged in.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The calls for a federal royal commission in the wake of Bondi are now reaching a roar.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
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Sarah Jefferson, Edith Cowan University
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Kate Douglas, Flinders University
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Joan Taylor, King's College London
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Philip C. Almond, The University of Queensland
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Nelly Liyanagamage, University of Wollongong
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Candice Harris, Auckland University of Technology; Jarrod Haar, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University; Maree Roche, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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