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Govt wants WhatsApp-like message encryption broken in fight against child porn

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 2020
Companies

Google, Facebook, WhatsApp agree with Centre to stamp out rape, child porn videos

Google, 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 2018
Technology

Facebook removed 8.7 million sexual photos of kids in last three months

The 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 2018
Industry

CBI busts child porn racket on WhatsApp, one arrested

CBI 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 2018
Politics

Around 3,500 websites hosting child porn blocked in June: Centre tells SC

The 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 2017
Industry

India launches first internet hotline to tackle surge in child porn

Indian anti-trafficking charity Prerana's Aarambh Initiative will run a internet hotline to encourage people to report online child pornography

2 min read20 Sep 2016
Politics

Govt plans new body to crack down on child porn, online abuse

The 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 2015
News

British PM urges Google to boost fight against child porn

David Cameron says Internet firms, search engines make their living by trawling and categorising the web

1 min read9 Jun 2013