To the best of our knowledge this is the first such study and the first time that the data stored by these apps has been publicly documented.
See paper by D.J. Leith, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
The people in the Australian government have ‘advertised’ that they’re implementing measures for ‘child safety’, regarding ‘social media’, knowing full well that their actions will not protect the children of the corporate (nee cannon) fodder.
BUT, they have (deliberately) overlooked one prevalent technology that is used by minors, that being Artificial Intelligence chat-bots.
A ‘failure of government’?
It doesn’t seem like it but rather a deliberate inaction.
It seems that corporations, via their products (AI chat-bots) will be able to abuse children for some time.
See a 7 minute clip from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing from 16 September 2025:
The (penal) colony called Australia, is very quick to implement dubious speed restrictions on road for the purpose of purely raising revenue, but very slow to action on child safety concerns, like the child care centres abuse that has recently make it into the public eye but has been going on for quite a while.
The government also admitted that during the recent pandemic mental health of the general population was not under consideration, where unlawfully issued fines were a priority to cash in on the unsuspecting masses.