SC calls for reports of Centre, internet intermediaries on removal of child porn, rape videosDuring the hearing, Bhati told the top court that they are ready with a status report regarding the developments that have happened. "This ...
19 Sep, 2022, 08.01 PM IST
MPs working on plan to make online space safer for womenGovernment officials, particularly of the IT and women and child development (WCD) ministries, informed the members through presentations a...
22 Nov, 2019, 08.07 AM 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
Politics, pornography and Pakistan: How the three Ps are interlinking in India's WhatsApp groupsWithin the chat groups, content interlinking politics, pornography and Pakistan is ringing some alarm bells.
05 Mar, 2019, 06.44 PM IST
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...
21 Dec, 2018, 07.00 AM IST
Child pornography vile, has no place on our messaging platform: WhatsAppTerming child pornography as "vile", WhatsApp said it also responds to valid legal requests from law enforcement to investigate these types...
07 Dec, 2018, 01.37 PM IST
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.
06 Dec, 2018, 09.26 PM IST
How the internet helped break sexual taboos, especially for womenWith everything from porn to erotica available, the internet has been a space for many people to begin discovering what sexual freedom can ...
20 May, 2018, 07.20 AM 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
Supreme Court to government: Set up hotline to check online child pornA bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit accepted the recommendations of the court-appointed committee - comprising the Centre's repr...
27 Oct, 2017, 10.38 AM IST
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...
04 Sep, 2017, 07.49 PM IST
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...
23 Mar, 2017, 12.08 PM IST
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.
05 Dec, 2016, 06.28 PM IST
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...
05 Dec, 2015, 11.33 AM IST
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...
28 Aug, 2015, 11.01 PM IST
With FB & Twitter, public shaming gets a makeover; but roasting on social media can have dramatic impactWith the state slow and inefficient in its response and society largely indifferent in India, public shaming via social media has become an...
05 Apr, 2015, 10.37 AM IST
Time for government, social media companies to clamp down on online abuseNearly 27% of female internet users have been sexually harassed online, according to an October report by US-based think tank PEW research.
31 Dec, 2014, 05.29 PM IST