Online dating platforms warned they will be hit with mandatory codes if they don't clean up their apps
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- 25 Jan 2023
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Online dating platforms have been warned to do more to make dating apps safer or else they may be forced to do so, after a national roundtable meeting on the issue.
Key points:
- 1. Ministers and online dating platforms have met to discuss improving the safety of their apps
- 2. The online dating platforms have committed to improving transparency, information sharing and reporting mechanisms
- 3. The apps were also warned if they don't improve, they could be hit with a mandatory code of conduct
The federal communications and social services ministers hosted the roundtable as part of a broader push to eliminate violence against women and children within a "generation".
They said online platforms had made renewed commitments to improve safety, including sharing more information with each other about bad actors, and improving complaints-handling processes.
But Communications Minister Michelle Rowland warned the online platforms were also "on notice" to improve, with new powers recently given to e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant to impose a mandatory code of conduct on the sector if it failed to make apps safer.
"These dating app services are not going to go away ... over three million Australians are using them," Ms Rowland said.
"So, we need to bring the industry with us as much as they can, but there is a backstop." Read More…
