Tech trends and challenges
To ensure eSafety’s content and programs reflect current information, technological developments and global trends, we continually scan for new research, policy, legislative and technical updates. This information informs and underpins our work.
We have captured eSafety's approach to selected tech trends and challenges in these position statements. This page is updated periodically.
Various emerging issues are also discussed in our blogposts.
Position statements
Decentralisation
This statement provides an overview and eSafety’s position on decentralisation – where the control of online data, information, interactions and experiences of users is widely distributed across the internet.
(29 July 2021)
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(29 July 2021)
Anonymity and identity shielding
This statement provides an overview and eSafety’s position on anonymity and identity shielding, which can make it difficult to hold people responsible for what they say and do online.
(22 January 2021)
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(22 January 2021)
Immersive technologies
This statement provides an overview and eSafety’s position on immersive technologies that enable 3D interaction with digital content - including augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality and haptics.
(10 December 2020)
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(10 December 2020)
Online harmful sexual behaviours
This statement provides an overview and eSafety’s position on online harmful sexual behaviours among children and young people under 18 years old – it refers to developmentally inappropriate sexual behaviours that involve use of the internet.
(21 September 2020)
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(21 September 2020)
Sexual extortion
This statement provides an overview and eSafety’s position on sexual extortion – a form of blackmail that involves threatening to share an individual's intimate image or video online unless they comply with certain demands.
(4 August 2020)
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(4 August 2020)
Doxing
This statement provides an overview and eSafety’s position on doxing — the intentional online exposure of an individual's identity, private information or personal details without their consent.
(29 May 2020)
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(29 May 2020)
Deepfakes
This statement provides an overview and eSafety’s position on deepfakes — digital photos, videos or sound files of a real person that have been edited to create an extremely realistic but false depiction of them.
(11 May 2020)
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(11 May 2020)
End-to-end encryption (E2EE)
This statement provides an overview and eSafety’s position on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) — a method of secure communication that allows only the people communicating with each other to read the messages, images or files being exchanged.
(25 February 2020)
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(25 February 2020)