SYDNEY—Australia is considering new data-privacy rules that could make it illegal for social-media companies to direct children to harmful content, the latest move by lawmakers around the world to address concerns about the impact of online platforms on young people’s mental health.
“Algorithms that direct kids to content such as eating-disorder content or extreme-dieting content, self-harm content and so on—plainly not in the best interest of children,” David Coleman, Australia’s assistant minister for mental health, said in an interview. “And that will be unlawful in Australia in the future.”
Michaelia Cash, Australia’s attorney general, said social-media companies need more oversight, not less.Services such as dating apps, discussion websites and videoconferencing platforms could also be considered to be social media, according to an explanatory paper from the government on the new rules. Those services would be subject to the same child-protection requirements as Facebook under Australia’s new privacy proposal.AlphabetGoogle, would be subject to some new requirements.
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