The panel met officials of companies such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp before preparing Saturday's report WhatsApp, which counts India as its biggest market with more than 400 million users, says it provides end-to-end encryption to help protect user privacy
1 min read27 Jan 2020Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and the Centre has agreed that child pornography, rape and gang rape videos and objectionable material need to be stamped out from the internet.
2 min read7 Dec 2018The machine learning tool rolled out over the last year identifies images that contain both nudity and a child, allowing increased enforcement of Facebook’s ban on photos that show minors in a sexualised context
2 min read25 Oct 2018CBI has registered a case against five boys and arrested the administrator of the WhatsApp group, Nikhil Verma, from Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district
1 min read23 Feb 2018The government also told the Supreme Court that it has asked CBSE to consider installation of jammers in schools to block access to child pornographic websites
1 min read14 Jul 2017Indian anti-trafficking charity Prerana's Aarambh Initiative will run a internet hotline to encourage people to report online child pornography
2 min read20 Sep 2016The initiative comes after an expert committee constituted to prepare a roadmap for effectively tackling cyber crime submitted its report to the home ministry
1 min read20 Sep 2015David Cameron says Internet firms, search engines make their living by trawling and categorising the web
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