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eSafety Commissioner / Federal Court of Australia Anthony Rotondo

September 26, 2025 · Australia

The Federal Court ordered Anthony Rotondo to pay a civil penalty of AUD 343,500 in eSafety Commissioner proceedings for posting non-consensual sexually explicit AI deepfake images of six prominent Australian women.

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Map each AI system to the applicable privacy, consumer-protection and sector rules before deployment; regulators expect documented compliance, not retrofits.

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