Overview
- A UK-based provider withdrew access to three popular undressing sites for Australian users following a September compliance action by the eSafety Commission.
- The services drew about 100,000 visits a month from Australia and were linked to several high-profile cases involving images of school students.
- eSafety found the company breached mandatory online-safety codes by failing to stop child sexual exploitation material and by marketing features such as “undress any girl”, “schoolgirl” and “sex mode”.
- Reports of deepfake image-based abuse doubled in the past 18 months, with most victims female and many incidents involving teenage boys targeting classmates, according to the commissioner.
- In parallel, model-hosting platform Hugging Face updated its terms to require risk controls on uploaded models, with potential penalties up to $49.5 million for non-compliance under Australian law.