Citing alleged abuses on OnlyFans, lawmakers call for stronger safeguardsLawmakers urge tighter online sexual exploitation safeguards. OnlyFans faces lawsuits over nonconsensual porn. Ofcom monitors enforcement o...
16 Mar, 2024, 10.19 AM IST
Spain to develop age verification technology to restrict access to porn sites for minorsGovernment spokeswoman Pilar Alegria, addressing the media after a weekly cabinet meeting, emphasized the "obvious and logical negative imp...
16 Jan, 2024, 09.07 PM IST
Centre notifies new POCSO rules making law for sexual offences against children more stringentSome of the significant additions in the new rules include provision of mandatory police verification of staff in schools and care homes, p...
13 Mar, 2020, 12.52 PM 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
Internet service providers join the DoT to wipe out child porn content from netCompanies such as Vodafone India and Tata Communications have stepped up their efforts in partnership with international groups such as the...
28 Dec, 2017, 07.20 AM IST
- Early exposure to porn may up sexist attitude in men
New York, Aug 4 (IANS) Young boys exposed to pornography are more likely to develop sexist attitudes and seek dominance over women, researc...
04 Aug, 2017, 06.02 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
Government asks ISPs to prevent distribution of child pornographyThe Internet Watch Foundation maintains such a list of dynamically updated websites/URLs containing online Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSA...
09 May, 2017, 09.04 PM IST
Teenagers who watch porn might develop harmful sexual behaviourThe access that young people are having to pornography is nothing short of alarming.
25 Nov, 2016, 07.04 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
Government asks internet service companies to block pornography sites, upgrade systemsPrasad said porn is legal in other countries, it needs to be viewed in the “context of Indian culture and moral obligation towards society”.
11 Nov, 2014, 03.47 AM IST
- Indian sentenced to 25 years for sexually exploiting child
A 50-year-old Indian man has been sentenced here to 25 years in prison for sexually exploiting a child for nearly five years.
24 Jun, 2014, 08.28 AM 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
Sexual harassment at workplace: Bill becomes lawThe bill was cleared by Parliament in February this year. The new law brings in its ambit even domestic workers and agriculture labour, bot...
25 Apr, 2013, 10.20 PM IST
- Google, Yahoo criticise Australian Internet filter
Google and Yahoo have criticised Australia's proposal for a mandatory Internet filter, calling it a heavy-handed measure that could restric...
24 Mar, 2010, 11.02 AM IST
- Hackers disrupt Australian government websites
Hackers shut down several Australian government websites in a coordinated attack against a proposed Internet filter that targets pornograph...
10 Feb, 2010, 01.08 PM IST
- Porn found on 25 per cent of corporate PCs
The study, conducted by PixAlert, which specialises in preventing illegal and pornographic images, found that nearly 47 per cent of the ima...
18 Apr, 2007, 11.00 AM IST