Child Pornography
NGO seeks legal action against OTT platforms for explicit content
An NGO has called for legal action against OTT platforms for broadcasting sexually-explicit content, contending that such programmes are disrupting India's social fabric. Save Culture, Save Bharat Foundation, founded by former information commissioner Uday Mahurkar, also claimed to have filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police against the promoters of the OTT platform ALTT for disseminating explicit content. In a statement, Mahurkar criticised OTT platforms for making sexually-explicit and harmful content openly accessible to viewers. He claimed that access to sexually-perverted content and pornography has emerged as a major cause behind rape cases in the country. The Delhi-based NGO contended that OTT platforms violate several Indian laws, including the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Information Technology Act, Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act and various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). "If left unchecked, such content ..
Watching, storing child pornography offence under Pocso Act: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court also recommended a shift in terminology from 'child pornography' to 'child sexually abusive and exploitative material'
Centre warns against fake letter seeking response over porn on devices
The fraudulent letter is currently circulating, falsely claiming to be from the agency and asserts that suspicious activity has been detected linked to a recipient's IP address
Watching child pornography not an offence under IT Act: Karnataka HC
The court quashed proceedings against petitioner, stating that watching pornographic material does not meet the requirements to establish a violation of Section 67B
Instagram begins blurring nudity in messages to fight sexual extortion
Instagram said it's deploying new new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages. The social media platform said in a blog post Thursday that it's testing out the new features as part of its campaign to fight sexual scams and other forms of image abuse, and to make it tougher for criminals to contact teens. Sexual extortion, or sextortion, involves persuading a person to send explicit photos online and then threatening to make the images public unless the victim pays money or engages in sexual favours. Recent high-profile cases include two Nigerian brothers who pleaded guilty to sexually extorting teen boys and young men in Michigan, including one who took his own life, and a Virginia sheriff's deputy who sexually extorted and kidnapped a 15-year-old girl. Instagram and other social media companies have faced growing criticism for not doing enough to protect young people. Mark Zuckerberg, the
'Extremely concerning': Elon Musk on child porn proliferation on Twitter
Elon Musk on Thursday expressed grave concerns over reports about the presence of tweets soliciting child pornography on Twitter, as India takes on the micro-blogging platform over similar concerns
What is a cybercrime portal? Here's how to check complaint status online
The National Cyber Crime Reporting portal is a citizen-centric initiative that enables citizens to report cybercrimes online
Google, Meta must find and remove online child porn, say EU draft rules
Companies that fail to comply with the rules face fines up to 6% of their annual income or global turnover.
Delhi Police books Twitter over access to child pornography on platform
The Delhi Police has registered an FIR against Twitter for allegedly allowing access to child pornography on the microblogging platform
The Pornhub saga shows how market forces can lead to beneficial changes
By putting a financial squeeze on Pornhub after the NYT story, Mastercard and Visa prompted the adult entertainment giant to change its behaviour for the better
Mastercard to investigate allegations of child abuse against Pornhub
Mastercard said on Sunday it was investigating allegations against Pornhub.com following a newspaper column which said many videos posted on the adult website depicted child abuse
'Deepfake': How media firms can gain from the otherwise controversial tech
They provide huge opportunity for media firms that want to tap into the 'fun and goofy' side of this tech
RS panel suggests breaking encryption to curb child pornograhy distribution
The recommendations assume significance in view of the ongoing battle between the government and WhatsApp over encryption.
How are we checking child porn, Rajya Sabha panel asks Google and Twitter
New Delhi, 6 January An ad hoc committee of the Rajya Sabha met executives from online social media platforms Google, Twitter and ShareChat, as also the HERD Foundation, on the "alarming issue of pornography on social media and its effect on children and society as a whole". According to a person present, the MPs asked the companies about ways to curb child pornography on their respective platforms. The meeting was attended by Rahul Jain, the India manager for public policy at Google; Twitter India policy head Mahima Kaul; Berges Malu, head of public policy and policy communications at Indian language content platform ShareChat; and Amol Deshmukh and Suchika Gupta of HERD Foundation. Another person aware of the discussion said one of the executives suggested something on the lines of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act in America. That law is designed to limit the collection and use of personal information about children by operators of internet services and websites. The ...
Seven booked by CBI for peddling child pornography on WhatsApp
Three long months after receiving the information, the CBI registered a preliminary inquiry on May 10, 2019
Child pornography: Govt asks CBSE to put jammers in schools to block access
Centre tells SC that it has blocked 3,522 websites carrying child pornographic content last month
3,500 websites hosting child pornography blocked in June: Govt informs SC
We are coming out with steps which will deal with the situation in its entirety: Government
American man arrested in Hyderabad for online child pornography: Police
Police said if found guilty, the American national could face up to five years imprisonment
