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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- CBI arrests 8 cybercriminals in four month crackdown under Interpol's global operationGlobally, Interpol coordinated the operation across 40 countries and territories. It resulted in the recovery of $342 million in government...07 Oct, 2025, 08.28 PM IST
- Mississippi social media law: Age verification and parental consent now mandatory on Facebook, Instagram, XMississippi’s new social media law now requires sites like Facebook, Instagram, and X to verify children’s ages and get parental consent. N...16 Aug, 2025, 05.50 AM IST
- AI-powered 'nudify' apps fuel deadly wave of digital blackmailA Kentucky teen’s suicide has spotlighted the rise of AI-driven sextortion, where scammers use “nudify” apps to blackmail minors with fake ...17 Jul, 2025, 08.03 AM IST
- Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s with world-first lawAustralia passed a world-first social media ban for children under 16, making platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram liable for fin...29 Nov, 2024, 07.57 AM IST
- Social media ban for under-16s passes Australian Senate, will soon be world-first lawThe law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian d...28 Nov, 2024, 08.55 PM IST
- Australia's House of Representatives passes bill that would ban young children from social mediaAustralia's House of Representatives has passed a bill banning children under 16 from social media. Platforms like TikTok and Facebook face...27 Nov, 2024, 07.58 AM IST
- Australia's plan to ban children from social media proves popular, problematicThe leaders of all eight Australian states and mainland territories have unanimously backed the plan to ban children from social media plat...15 Nov, 2024, 04.53 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
- Meta removes 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria over 'sextortion' scamsNigerian online fraudsters, known as "Yahoo boys," are notorious for scams that range from passing themselves off as people in financial ne...25 Jul, 2024, 09.09 AM IST
- Meta turns to AI to protect minors from 'sextortion' on InstagramMeta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has bee...11 Apr, 2024, 05.41 PM IST
- US Senate hearing: Meta, TikTok, X CEOs grilled by senators about child sexual exploitationThe hearing marks the latest effort by lawmakers to address the concerns of parents and mental health experts that social media companies p...31 Jan, 2024, 11.57 PM IST
- Social media giants 'big, bad monsters': US Families suing Big TechHundreds of families are suing social media giants like TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Meta (parent company of Instagram and Facebook) in th...20 Nov, 2023, 02.01 PM IST
- Not advisable to tinker with existing age of consent under POCSO Act: Law Commission to govtThe Law Commission in India has recommended against changing the age of consent under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCS...29 Sep, 2023, 06.33 PM IST
- Amid sextortion's rise, computer scientists tap AI to identify risky appsPredators are increasingly weaponizing apps and online services to collect explicit images. Last year, law enforcement received 7,000 repor...11 Aug, 2023, 11.08 AM IST
- Age of AI has led to an alarming proliferation of deep fake pornWomen are a particular target of AI tools and apps -- widely available for free and requiring no technical expertise -- that allow users to...27 Jul, 2023, 06.22 PM IST
- In age of AI, women battle rise of deepfake pornArtificial intelligence-enabled deepfakes are typically associated with fake viral images of well-known personalities such as Pope Francis ...24 Jul, 2023, 11.09 AM IST
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