Bengaluru director made a Rs 34 payment mistake, then his account started draining until nearly Rs 74,000 vanishedA 56-year-old Bengaluru-based company director lost nearly Rs 74,000 in an online scam after falling for a fake bank reward points redempti...
Over 1,400 URLs blocked for fake news during Operation Sindoor: Govt in LSThe government has blocked more than 1,400 web links for spreading fake news. This action was part of Operation Sindoor. The Fact Check Uni...
Access to more than 29,000 URLs blocked on IT ministry orders between 2018-2022: GovtIn a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Chandrasekhar said that in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, the Union IT ministry passed orders to bl...
As many as 1,122 Twitter URLs blocked on IT Ministry's directions this year up to JuneIn line with the objective of ensuring open, safe, trusted and accountable internet for all users, the IT Ministry issued directions "to Tw...
Govt blocked 9,849 social media URLs in 2020The accounts were blocked under Section 69A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, and while the number of accounts/URLs blocked wer...
442% rise in the number of URLs blockedIT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad addressed to the question raised by Congress MP Jothimani over removal of “objectionable online content pos...
'Website not found' pop-ups leave net activists fumingLast year, MeitY blocked 2,799 URLs for allegedly hosting malicious content, marking a sharp increase from 2017, when 1,385 URLs were block...
2,388 social media URLs blocked or removed in 2018: S S AhluwaliaIn a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Electronics and IT S S Ahluwalia said Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000, provides ...
Direction to block over 11,000 websites issued since Jan 2016: Manoj SinhaInternet service providers implement blocking or filtering of websites or uniform resource locators (URLs) or webpages by using suitable te...
1,662 defamatory websites, contents blocked by social media platforms: GovtFacebook has blocked 956 URLs against requests for 1,076 URLs, Twitter 409 URLs against 728 requests and YouTube 152 URLs against 182 reque...
735 social media URLs, 596 websites blocked till June 2017Minister of State for Electronics and IT, PP Chaudhary said that instances of misuse of web/social media in the country have come to the no...
Blocking of URLs shows an upward trend: Govt dataThe minister presented the data for the number of social media uniform resource locators (URLs) blocked during the last three years in a wr...
492 social media URLs blocked in Jan-Nov 2015 under Sec 69AClose to 500 URLs of social media websites were blocked in 2015 (till November 30) under Section 69A of the IT Act, a manifold jump compare...
Can’t filter child porn content on websites, internet providers tell government"ISPs have no way or mechanism to filter out child pornographic from URLs and further unlimited sub links of the said URLs (exist) in diffe...
Government asks social networking sites to block 1,299 URLsGovernment asked social networking sites to block 1,299 web addresses or URLs to comply with court orders between January 2013 and January ...
Government asks social networking sites to block 1,208 URLs in 2013Social networking sites were requested to block these web pages in order to comply with court orders, Kapil Sibal said in a written reply t...
Govt blocked 254 URLs in 2013Government has blocked a total of 254 URLs or uniform resource locators in 2013, Parliament was informed today.