Maharashtra to probe alleged misuse of funds under women empowerment scheme of previous BJP govtThe Prajwala scheme was launched in 2019 by the then government aiming at creating awareness about legal matters, social and financial know...
Exclusive | Don’t Indian firms working in the US follow their laws?: RS PrasadIndia's social media intermediary guidelines are meant to provide a grievance redressal mechanism to ordinary users, Union Minister of Elec...
Rules protect rights of users, were framed because social media giants failed to do so: Ravi Shankar PrasadIT and law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has been in the thick of things as the new guidelines for social media became a flashpoint for a sh...
View: Can digital news media be blocked?The very fact that a publisher has control over the content disentitles them to be categorised as ‘intermediary’. To frame rules therefore ...
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...
MeitY may allow more time to spike toxic online contentUnder new guidelines in the works, social media firms may get 36 hours to axe unlawful content
Whatsapp still being used for child abuse videosProbe finds app remains breeding ground for such videos; company says it’s working with tech platforms, authorities.
Facebook, Google blocking search words linked to child pornA search for ‘child porn’ on Google now throws up a warning that states child abuse is illegal and creating, possessing and viewing child p...
Centre, Google, FB, WhatsApp agree to stamp out rape, child porn videos: SCGoogle and YouTube have one reaction. Facebook, Microsoft and WhatsApp each have different reactions," the bench said in its order.
Fintech startup Crowdera raises pre-series A funding from marquee investorsThe company plans to use the funds raised to propel the early stage growth and amplify the overall impact by enhancing the product, and sca...
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 ...
Supreme Court asks Google, Facebook to give inputs on objectionable videosThe apex court asked them to provide such details they received last year and this year till August 31 and also about the action taken by t...
Internet giants roped in to curb child pornAll the four companies furnished names of their representatives who will participate in the meeting of the committee which would also compr...
Cybercrime: SC issues notice to Google, Yahoo, Facebook and MSA bench of justices M B Lokur and U U Lalit issued notice to these companies and sought their reply on the plea by January 9.
Government to unveil a new bill to check human traffickingDraft bill calls for the creation of a special court and investigation agency to tackle human trafficking cases in India.
Supreme Court turns down plea to ban social networking sitesThe Centre had earlier told the court that it was difficult to identify people who uploaded sex videos through mobile phones and shared thr...
Supreme Court asks IT Ministry to respond on blocking circulation of rape videosThe Supreme Court today asked the Information Technology Ministry to respond on how to block videos of rape cases, which are circulating on...