NCPCR asks social media platforms to explore ways to protect children onlineThe National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) met with major social media platforms to discuss child safety online. They e...
22 Sep, 2024, 07.29 PM IST
AMBER Alert Discontinued After Two Girls Found Safe in Dilley, TexasAn AMBER alert was issued after two girls aged 6 and 8 were abducted from Texas. The authorities caught the kidnapper and she was arrested ...
11 Jun, 2023, 05.42 PM IST
Smriti Irani asks Meta to sync with child helpline for quick response during emergencySpeaking at Digital Surakhsa Summit, Irani expressed concern over videos being made in unsafe circumstances by social media users and asked...
10 Apr, 2023, 05.16 PM IST
Take It Down: Meta's new tool to prevent spread of minors' revealing imagesThe social network said it financially supported the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the development of 'Take...
28 Feb, 2023, 02.56 PM IST
More than 3,500 people arrested in over 14,000 cybercrime complaints in 2021The number of complaints reported under the online financial fraud category of the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal from January 2021 ...
07 Dec, 2022, 05.46 PM IST
Who is Jalen Kitna? Know about the 19-yr-old son of ex-NFL QB Jon Kitna who was arrested for possessing child pornographyJalen Kitna has been arrested on child pornography charges, and police from Gainesville have found him sharing child pornographic images, w...
01 Dec, 2022, 09.04 PM IST
Missing since June from Maine, three-member family found safe. Check the detailsThe three family members, who went missing from Maine in June, were Jill Sidebotham, Nicholas Hansen and their two-year-old daughter Lydia....
10 Sep, 2022, 03.25 PM IST
Instagram Reels go from 60 seconds to 90 secondsThe company is betting aggressively on Reels in India, especially after Chinese short video app TikTok was banned in 2020 following border ...
04 Jun, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Power of more: Instagram Reels will now go from 60 seconds to 90 secondsInstagram also said that you can now import your own audio directly within reels.
03 Jun, 2022, 04.15 PM IST
Facebook launches ‘Report it, Don’t share it!’ initiative to prevent online child abuseThe initiative, which follows Facebook’s updates on child safety policies, encourages people to report, and not share content that could ha...
15 Jun, 2021, 06.04 PM IST
Facebook testing new tools to stop exploitative content on childrenFacebook has started testing two new tools, one aimed at the potentially malicious searching for child exploitative content and another aim...
24 Feb, 2021, 12.02 PM IST
Facebook stepping up fight against child abuse on platform, adds new tools & policiesFacebook is also testing a safety alert that informs people sharing child exploitation content about the harm it causes and the legal conse...
24 Feb, 2021, 09.31 AM IST
NCRB launches portal for searching missing persons, check police record of vehiclesCitizens can now search for missing persons and check police records of any vehicle and generate a no-objection certificate (NOC) for it fr...
29 Jan, 2020, 09.24 PM IST
In online clean-up, Home Ministry gets sites to take off 71 videosA list of 500 key words used in searching such videos was compiled and shared with Internet service providers such as Google, Yahoo, Facebo...
29 Oct, 2019, 07.16 AM IST
US to help India check online child pornographyThe MoU will provide access to more than one lakh Tipline reports available with the NCMEC and enable law enforcement agencies in India.
29 May, 2019, 04.39 PM IST
Crack down on rape videos, child porn: Govt to IT giantsIt has been decided to focus on vernacular languages for checking the uploading and misuse of such content, and many Indian languages will ...
23 Nov, 2017, 10.19 AM IST
- Facebook will partner with Microsoft to help fight child pornography by tracing trawl photos for child abuse
Facebook has announced to introduce a new technology which will automatically trawl photos posted by users for child abuse.
22 May, 2011, 06.42 PM IST