1000 Men and Me: Channel 4 documentary prompts UK pornography task force to push for ban on ‘barely legal’ contentA new pornography task force will propose laws to ban certain types of online content. This follows a Channel 4 documentary featuring Bonni...
04 Aug, 2025, 02.26 AM IST
'Watching porn not an offence': SC to examine HC judgement, terms the ruling as 'atrocious'The Supreme Court will scrutinise a Madras High Court ruling deeming watching child pornography as non-offensive. The controversial judgmen...
11 Mar, 2024, 04.49 PM IST
EU lawmakers try to balance protection and privacy over online child pornographyUnder the the draft position adopted by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the Parliament, internet providers wi...
14 Nov, 2023, 04.50 PM IST
RS panel suggests dedicated system to prevent online abuse of childrenA dedicated mechanism to deal with online sexual crimes on children and changes in the definition of 'child pornography' under the Protecti...
14 Jan, 2020, 08.57 AM IST
Rajya Sabha Panel submits report on tackling child porn, recommendations could include changes in POCSO ActThe panel may want the POSCO Act to consider as an offence the act of “advocating or counselling sexual activity” to a minor, and may want ...
13 Jan, 2020, 11.47 PM IST
House Panel wants a fix to social media’s porn problemThe panel, formed in December, has so far met with representatives of Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Google and ShareChat. Last week, the panel...
13 Jan, 2020, 06.53 AM IST
Child porn definition to be widened to curb crimeThe Union Cabinet had on Wednesday approved the amendments to the POCSO Act.
12 Jul, 2019, 08.58 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
Child pornography: Centre asks CBSE to put jammers in schoolsAs per information received from US-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, they are trying to establish their secure lin...
14 Jul, 2017, 08.40 PM IST
New cyber-control hub to check pornography, online trollsThe Rs 400-crore state-of-the-art centre, Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (IC4), is being set up to tackle all cyber crime including...
18 Jul, 2016, 08.09 PM IST
Child pornography: Government initiates steps to access Interpol's listIn order to check online child pornography, government has initiated steps to devise a mechanism to access Interpol's 'worst-of-list'.
02 Dec, 2015, 03.56 PM IST
Not sex education, panel recommends cyber education for parentsExpert group, set up by MHA on cyber crimes, moots setting up of an advance cyber crime monitoring centre for proactive monitoring of crime...
18 Sep, 2015, 10.09 AM IST
Poke Me: The real issue India needs to tackle is child pornography, not pornographyThe nature and variety of pornography available on the Internet is diverse and includes content that many will find abhorrent and distastef...
20 Aug, 2015, 05.36 PM IST
Government to take action on child porn stingBBC had reported that a children rights group operating from Amsterdam had created a fake profile online of a Filipino girl and named her S...
11 Nov, 2013, 05.00 AM IST
- Govt to Amend IT Act in winter session to deal cyber-crimes
The Union government will be incorporating stringent provisions in the proposed amendment to the Information Technology Act to deal with a ...
06 Dec, 2008, 06.39 PM IST
- Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Sprint agree to block Internet child porn
Online forums where thousands of child-porn images have been posted have been stricken from three Internet providers.
11 Jun, 2008, 06.27 AM IST
- US ISPs give up resistance to block child porn sites
Internet service providers Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to bulletin boards and web sites across the US...
10 Jun, 2008, 10.22 AM IST