Vote Yatra: How domestic help exodus exposes urban India's dependenceAs Bengal gears up for elections, domestic helpers have made their way back, highlighting how essential they are to the fabric of middle-cl...
25 Apr, 2026, 01.03 AM IST
EU to soon roll out age-check app for social media where India could be looking to followEuropean Union is launching an age-verification app to shield children online. India's Karnataka state has banned social media for under-16...
15 Apr, 2026, 04.13 PM IST
What is Operation Eclipse? Inside the INTERPOL-led operation to bust child sexual abuse ring, rescue 65 kids and arrest 60 suspects across the AmericasA year-long international police operation has successfully rescued 65 minors and led to 60 arrests across nine countries. Operation Eclips...
19 Mar, 2026, 02.17 PM IST
Louisiana sues Roblox game platform over child safetyThe US state of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit accusing Roblox of facilitating the exploitation of children, prompting the online game platf...
16 Aug, 2025, 07.36 AM IST
Edmonton teen charged under terrorism law for alleged ties to violent online networkA 15-year-old in Edmonton faces a terrorism-related charge linked to the COM/764 network, a violent online group exploiting platforms like ...
30 May, 2025, 06.30 AM IST
One in twelve children faces online sexual abuse, finds alarming studyOne in every 12 children globally experienced online sexual abuse in the past year, according to a study published in The Lancet Child and ...
22 Jan, 2025, 04.37 PM IST
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
Snap sued by New Mexico over failure to protect children from sexual exploitationThe lawsuit brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez said a months-long investigation found that Snapchat was a primary platform ...
06 Sep, 2024, 06.07 PM IST
EU wants to know how Meta tackles child sex abuseThe request for information focuses on Meta's risk assessment and mitigation measures "linked to the protection of minors, including regard...
01 Dec, 2023, 11.14 PM IST
CEOs of TikTok, Meta, X to testify at US Senate hearing in JanuarySenator Dick Durbin, the panel's Democratic chairman and the ranking Republican Lindsey Graham said Discord and X had initially balked at p...
30 Nov, 2023, 08.43 AM IST
Tech giants pool efforts to fight online child sex abuseChild victims of abuse online are a hot-button issue for regulators and tech companies are eager to show they are taking adequate measures ...
08 Nov, 2023, 12.27 PM IST
33 pc parents say their children approached by strangers via online platforms, finds studyFor the parents who had shared that their children have indicated experiences of online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA), respon...
19 Jan, 2023, 09.24 AM IST
House panel to submit report on online safety of kids in a month14-member committee mulls over legislative provisions to address online exploitation. The government has revealed in the ongoing Parliament...
13 Dec, 2019, 07.07 AM IST
CBI sets up investigation unit for online child sexual abuseThe newly specialized unit will collect, collate and disseminate information regarding publication, transmission, creation, collection, see...
15 Nov, 2019, 02.42 PM 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
'Blocking sites,search terms 'ineffective' to stop child porn'"The move by Internet search engines to make it harder to find child abuse images online do not go far enough to solve the problem," IET sa...
19 Nov, 2013, 06.32 PM 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