© 2016 Owen Franken/Getty ImagesAustralia’s eSafety commissioner issued an advisory on July 28 urging schools to review how they share images online, citing a rise in the misuse of school photos. In 2024, Human Rights Watch documented that the personal photos of Australian children, including images posted by schools, had been scraped and used to train AI models. Australia has been considering stronger child data protections rules through the government’s proposed Children’s Online Privacy Code. As the government moves towards finalizing the code, it should ensure that it explicitly prohibits the scraping of children’s photos and personal data for AI training. Australia should make it clear as a matter of law that children’s images are not raw material for AI models.