SC raps Google, Microsoft, Yahoo for failing to block sex selection advertisements
8 years, 8 months ago

SC raps Google, Microsoft, Yahoo for failing to block sex selection advertisements

India TV News  

SC raps Google, Microsoft, Yahoo for failing to block sex selection New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down hard on search engines Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for not following its orders regarding filtering of The SC bench headed by Justices Dipak Misra and R. Banumathi said that the search engines had violated Indian laws that prohibit the sale of sex determination tests and their advertising. The court has now asked the Centre to organise a meeting of technical experts and search engines within 10 days to come up with steps to avoid such forms of illegal advertising. Last year, the court had ordered the search engine giants to follow local laws in regard to all these banned practice. The practice of sex selection and their The hearing is based on a petition filed by Sabu Mathew George, who is a member of the National Inspection and Monitoring Committee, set up by the SC in 2003 to inspect and report the implementation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994.

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Centre orders internet companies to block 67 porn websites
2 years, 6 months ago

Centre orders internet companies to block 67 porn websites

Firstpost  

The Department of Telecom asked service providers to block 63 websites based on the order of a Pune court, and block 4 websites based on the order of the Uttarakhand High Court and directions issued by the Ministry of Electronics and IT New Delhi: The government has ordered internet companies to block 67 pornographic websites following court orders and for …

Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain PIL Seeking To Examine Link Between Pornography & Sexual Crimes
2 years, 6 months ago

Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain PIL Seeking To Examine Link Between Pornography & Sexual Crimes

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, on Monday, refused to entertain a petition seeking to formulate a Standard Operating Procedure by the police to examine the impact of viewing of pornographic material while investigation a sexual offence case. The petitioner, Nalin Kohli, started his arguments by referring to a recent investigation by Assam Police of Nagaon District wherein a link was established between …

New IT rules don’t apply to us, Google tells Delhi High Court
3 years, 10 months ago

New IT rules don’t apply to us, Google tells Delhi High Court

The Hindu  

Google told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that the new Information Technology Rules 2021, which came into effect late last month, did not apply to the U.S.-based tech giant as it was a “search engine” and not a “social media intermediary” like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Google urged the High Court to quash its April 20 order which applied …

Indian court bans ‘vulgar’ adverts even after watershed: ‘Some condom ads look like a porno film’
4 years, 3 months ago

Indian court bans ‘vulgar’ adverts even after watershed: ‘Some condom ads look like a porno film’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A court in India has …

SC: Intermediaries like Google can't claim protection from defamation
5 years, 3 months ago

SC: Intermediaries like Google can't claim protection from defamation

The Quint  

New Delhi, Dec 10 The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that intermediaries like Google cannot claim any protection for publishing defamatory content online prior to the 2009 amendment to Section 79 of the Information Technology Act. The court verdict came on an appeal filed by Google India against the verdict given by the Andhra Pradesh High Court. The case before …

SC pulls up social media sites for promoting material leading to lynching, violence
6 years, 8 months ago

SC pulls up social media sites for promoting material leading to lynching, violence

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed serious concern for social media search engines like Facebook, WhatsApp and Yahoo for their irresponsible behaviour in promoting objectionable materials leading to lynching of people by violent mobs. A Bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta hearing a PIL filed by NGO Prajwala, warned these search engines of imposing an …

Take Facebook help to block porn: Supreme Court
7 years, 5 months ago

Take Facebook help to block porn: Supreme Court

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: With a view to ensuring that explicit videos depicting rape, gang rape and child pornography are not available for circulation in the internet, the Supreme Court has asked the Government to work with companies like Google, Yahoo!, Facebook and WhatsApp to suggest list of key words that will help in blocking such videos. A Bench of justices Madan …

Body set up to deal with sex determination info on Internet, Centre tells SC
7 years, 6 months ago

Body set up to deal with sex determination info on Internet, Centre tells SC

The Hindu  

The government on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it has set up a nodal agency to redress complaints seeking deletion of materials violating Indian laws prohibiting pre-natal sex determination, from search engines and websites. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra considered the submission of Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, representing the Centre, that the nodal agency was functional …

Narendra Modi govt crackdown on online child sexual abuse content by 31 July
7 years, 11 months ago

Narendra Modi govt crackdown on online child sexual abuse content by 31 July

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The government has directed Internet service providers to block distribution and transmission of child sexual abuse content by 31 July. “ISP’s having cable landing station gateways/ international long distance licences in India shall be required to adopt and implement IWF resources on or before July 31, 2017, to prevent distribution and transmission of online CSAM in to India,” …

Right to information can't be curtailed, says Supreme Court
7 years, 11 months ago

Right to information can't be curtailed, says Supreme Court

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday made it clear that it can’t curtail the right to seek information, knowledge and wisdom as long as the search of information on the internet does not violate sex determination law. Shantanagou-der said, “ There is no need for anyone to infer that there is any right to curtail information, knowledge and wisdom, …

Right to access Internet cannot be curtailed, says SC
7 years, 11 months ago

Right to access Internet cannot be curtailed, says SC

The Hindu  

Citizens have the right to access the Internet to gain information, wisdom and knowledge and their right cannot be curtailed unless it encroaches into the boundary of illegality, the Supreme Court observed on Thursday. The Centre, represented by Solicitor-General Ranjit Kumar, said the prohibition under Section 22 should be only on paid ads for sex determination or online Assurance to …

Supreme Court seeks advice on porn ban
8 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court seeks advice on porn ban

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to render expert assistance on whether explicit sexual videos, particularly child pornography, can be prevented from being uploaded on the internet. A bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Uday Lalit on Monday morning made this request after senior counsel for Google Abhishek Manu Singhvi made it clear that it …

Supreme Court asks Google about internal mechanism to identify and take down obscene content
8 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court asks Google about internal mechanism to identify and take down obscene content

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court today sought to know from internet service provider Google whether it could “prevent” uploading of obscene contents like videos of sexual violence on websites. A bench of Justices M B Lokur and U U Lalit asked Google about its internal mechanism or “in-house procedure” to identify such obscene contents posted on websites and also about “how much …

Supreme Court to Google: Can uploading of obscene videos be prevented?
8 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court to Google: Can uploading of obscene videos be prevented?

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought to know from Internet service provider Google whether it could “prevent” uploading of obscene contents like videos of sexual violence on websites. Lalit asked Google about its internal mechanism or “in-house procedure” to identify such obscene content posted on websites and also about “how much can they do to prevent it”. We …

Prevent Uploading Of Rape Videos, Child Porn: Amicus To Centre
8 years, 1 month ago

Prevent Uploading Of Rape Videos, Child Porn: Amicus To Centre

Live Law  

The amicus curiae in the matter where Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance of gangrape videos circulating on the internet has asked the government to take all steps to prevent uploading and dissemination of rape videos, revenge porn, child pornography etc including through revision of intermediary rules.Amicus Curiae N S Nappinai in her report said intermediaries should be directed to. …

Showing sex determination ads is illegal: Here is why there is no full stop to this
8 years, 1 month ago

Showing sex determination ads is illegal: Here is why there is no full stop to this

Firstpost  

Why does the court have to keep reminding search engines, time and again, to stop showing these sex determination test The Supreme Court has put its foot down, asking search engines to adopt in-house mechanisms to identify and block Indeed, it sounds as easy as omitting a search term, but this is more to do with A quick Google search …

Government will set up a specialized agency to block cybercrimes
8 years, 2 months ago

Government will set up a specialized agency to block cybercrimes

Firstpost  

The Centre today informed the Supreme Court that it will set up a specialized agency mechanism to block and curb sharing of sexual offence videos on social networking platforms in order to check cybercrimes. Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh said even the budgetary allocation has been made for creating a specialised central institutional mechanism for blocking, stopping videos from being …

Centre Ropes In Interpol To Crack Down On Child Pornography Sites
8 years, 3 months ago

Centre Ropes In Interpol To Crack Down On Child Pornography Sites

Live Law  

Last year, 96 reports of children being sexually exploited in internet imagery were reported in India - a rise of 140 per cent from 2014, according to National Crimes Records Bureau data. “IT ministry has approved a formal agreement wherein Department of Telecommunications will obtain list maintained by INTERPOL containing domain names hosting child sexual abuse contents and act as …

SC notice to Google, Facebook others on plea seeking curb on cybercrimes
8 years, 3 months ago

SC notice to Google, Facebook others on plea seeking curb on cybercrimes

India TV News  

The Supreme Court today sought response from internet majors Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook on a plea seeking curbs on sharing of sexual offence videos on social networking sites and steps to check cybercrimes. A plea filed by NGO Prajwala stated that rape videos are shot and posted on the social networking sites and the internet companies should take steps …

Websites told to delete prenatal test information
8 years, 4 months ago

Websites told to delete prenatal test information

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the ministry of health and family welfare to set up a “nodal agency” to enforce the ban on commercial A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Amitav Roy gave this direction on a public interest litigation filed in 2008 by one Sabu Mathew George, complaining that a number of foreign websites are …

Delete words facilitating sex determination: SC tells Google, Yahoo
8 years, 4 months ago

Delete words facilitating sex determination: SC tells Google, Yahoo

India TV News  

Delete words facilitating sex determination: SC tells Google, Yahoo The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to form a nodal agency to look into the complaints pertaining to sex determination tests. The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to form a nodal agency to look into the complaints pertaining to sex determination tests. will have to remove illegal “If it's …

SC Directs Search Engines To ‘Autoblock’ Search On Pre-Natal Sex Determination [Read Order]
8 years, 6 months ago

SC Directs Search Engines To ‘Autoblock’ Search On Pre-Natal Sex Determination [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday observed that internet search engines Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! are under obligation to see that the “doctrine of autoblock” is applied within a reasonable period of time to prohibit any attempt to search any keyword pertaining to pre-natal sex determination.A Bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra was acting on a petition filed by Sabu Mathew …

SC Directs Search Engines To ‘Autoblock’ Search On Pre-Natal Sex Determination [Read Order]
8 years, 6 months ago

SC Directs Search Engines To ‘Autoblock’ Search On Pre-Natal Sex Determination [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday observed that internet search engines Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! are under obligation to see that the “doctrine of autoblock” is applied within a reasonable period of time to prohibit any attempt to search any keyword pertaining to pre-natal sex determination.A Bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra was acting on a petition filed by Sabu Mathew …

SC slams Microsoft, Google, Yahoo for hosting sex determination Advts violating PNDT Act [Read the Order]
8 years, 8 months ago

SC slams Microsoft, Google, Yahoo for hosting sex determination Advts violating PNDT Act [Read the Order]

Live Law  

Supreme Court today accused online search engines Microsoft, Google and Yahoo of violating the law of the country by hosting Supreme Court today accused online search engines Microsoft, Google and Yahoo of violating the law of the country by hosting A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra was acting on a petition filed by Sabu Mathew George who is a …

Supreme Court pulls up Google, Yahoo, Microsoft for promoting sex determination
8 years, 8 months ago

Supreme Court pulls up Google, Yahoo, Microsoft for promoting sex determination

Firstpost  

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are in trouble, yet again. The Supreme Court had directed the trio not to advertise, or sponsor any Tech giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are in trouble, yet again. The Supreme Court had directed the trio not to advertise, or sponsor any Now, the Supreme Court has slammed the trio for The court has …

Block Child Pornographic Sites; Explore if viewing porn in public can be prohibited: SC to Centre [Read Order]
9 years, 1 month ago

Block Child Pornographic Sites; Explore if viewing porn in public can be prohibited: SC to Centre [Read Order]

Live Law  

Observing that right to free speech, thought and expression was not “absolute”, the Supreme Court today asked the Centre to take steps to block child pornographic sites and also to gradually consider steps to block all pornographic sitesA bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra significantly also decided to hear a plea to make watching pornographic material in any form in …

Block Child Pornographic Sites; Explore if viewing porn in public can be prohibited: SC to Centre [Read Order]
9 years, 1 month ago

Block Child Pornographic Sites; Explore if viewing porn in public can be prohibited: SC to Centre [Read Order]

Live Law  

Observing that right to free speech, thought and expression was not “absolute”, the Supreme Court today asked the Centre to take steps to block child pornographic sites and also to gradually consider steps to block all pornographic sitesA bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra significantly also decided to hear a plea to make watching pornographic material in any form in …

Women Lawyers' Association moves SC seeking ban on porn sites
9 years, 6 months ago

Women Lawyers' Association moves SC seeking ban on porn sites

India TV News  

New Delhi: A women lawyers' body has moved the Supreme Court seeking blocking of all porn websites as it claimed that pornography "corrupts" the mind of the young generation and leads them to commit crime against women and children. The intervention application filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers' Association, which came over a month after the Centre's decision to …

SC asks search engines like Yahoo, Google to respond on sex determination Ads
9 years, 7 months ago

SC asks search engines like Yahoo, Google to respond on sex determination Ads

Live Law  

The Supreme Court of India has asked search engines like Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation Pvt Ltd to respond to the allegations that they were violating a court order and Indian laws by not blocking The Supreme Court of India has asked search engines like Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation Pvt Ltd to respond to the …

Complete ban on porn sites not possible govt to sc
9 years, 7 months ago

Complete ban on porn sites not possible govt to sc

India TV News  

Complete ban on porn sites not possible, we can't be present in everyone's bedroom: Govt tells SC New Delhi: On a petition seeking total ban on the porn sites in India, the government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it is committed to ban child pornography but expressed its inability in New Delhi: On a petition seeking total ban …

Porn block in India: hundreds of sexual websites banned, internet outraged
9 years, 7 months ago

Porn block in India: hundreds of sexual websites banned, internet outraged

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy India appears to have banned porn, ordering internet companies to turn off access …

Google Yahoo Flipkart in trouble over promoting gender determination
10 years, 1 month ago

Google Yahoo Flipkart in trouble over promoting gender determination

India TV News  

New Delhi: In the light of preventing female feoticide, a civil society initiative ‘Girls Counts' has taken most of the e-commerce websites in India under the scanner. The organization has urged the citizens of India to sign an online petition asking all online shopping platforms to refrain from advertising or selling publications and products that promote gender-biased sex selection. In …

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft to block sex determination test ads as ordered by Supreme Court
10 years, 2 months ago

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft to block sex determination test ads as ordered by Supreme Court

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court Wednesday directed search engines Google, Microsoft and Yahoo not to advertise, or sponsor any The Supreme Court Wednesday directed search engines Google, Microsoft and Yahoo not to advertise, or sponsor any “As an interim measure, it is directed, the respondents, namely, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft shall not advertise or sponsor any The court also directed the three …

SC orders Google, Yahoo! And Microsoft to stop advertisements relating to sex determination
10 years, 2 months ago

SC orders Google, Yahoo! And Microsoft to stop advertisements relating to sex determination

Live Law  

A Supreme Court Bench, comprising of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C. Pant, has directed Google, Yahoo! And Microsoft to stop A Supreme Court Bench, comprising of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C. Pant, has directed Google, Yahoo! At the Census 2001, sex ratio of the population in the age group 0-6 years has been registered as 927, …

Supreme Court says ‘a legal solution has to be arrived at’ as Government expresses helplessness over search engine results
10 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court says ‘a legal solution has to be arrived at’ as Government expresses helplessness over search engine results

Live Law  

Senior Advocate Sanjay Parikh, appearing for the petitioner Sabu Mathew George raised the issue of search engines showing results in violation of the legal provisions contained in the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, in the Supreme Court today.He submitted that, Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation Pvt. Senior Advocate Sanjay Parikh, appearing for the petitioner Sabu Mathew …

Supreme Court seeks steps to stop sex-determination contents on websites – India TV
10 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court seeks steps to stop sex-determination contents on websites – India TV

India TV News  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said that an effort has to be made to ensure that websites like Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation Pvt Ltd do not show contents in violation of the Indian law prohibiting sex determination of a feotus. The court also expressed unhappiness over a 2010 affidavit of Group Coordinator, Cyber Laws Formulation and …

Tough to block all porn sites: Centre tells Supreme Court
10 years, 7 months ago

Tough to block all porn sites: Centre tells Supreme Court

Live Law  

In a petition filed through advocate Vijay Panjwani saying that the absence of Internet laws encourages people to watch porn videos and over 20 crore porn videos or clippings are freely available in the market, which have been directly downloaded from the Internet or copied from video CDs, the Centre informed the Court that “"If we block one site, other …

Blocking porn sites would cause greater harm: Centre to Supreme Court
10 years, 10 months ago

Blocking porn sites would cause greater harm: Centre to Supreme Court

The Hindu  

Blocking all websites with pornographic content in the country is not possible and it would cause more harm as literary content containing such words would also not be available for public on Internet, the Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court. Vishwanathan submitted that blocking all such websites would cause greater harm. “Everything would be blocked and even good literature …

Blocking porn sites would cause greater harm: Centre to SC
10 years, 10 months ago

Blocking porn sites would cause greater harm: Centre to SC

India TV News  

New Delhi: Blocking all websites with pornographic content in the country is not possible and it would cause more harm as literary content containing such words would also not be available for public on Internet, the Centre today told the Supreme Court. Appearing before a bench headed by Justice B S Chauhan, Additional Solicitor General K V Vishwanathan submitted that …

Supreme Court issues notice to Department of Telecommunication in a PIL to ban Child Pornography Websites
11 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court issues notice to Department of Telecommunication in a PIL to ban Child Pornography Websites

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Department of Telecommunication looking for its answer in question of blocking websites with pornographic content particularly those containing objects of child pornography.In a PIL, highlighting menace of child pornographic content freely available on the internet, filed by Indore-based advocate Kamlesh Vaswani, through Advocate Vijay Panjwani,. The Supreme Court has issued notice to …

Supreme Court issues notice to DoT on how to block child porn in India
11 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court issues notice to DoT on how to block child porn in India

Firstpost  

Even as technology bigwigs like Google and Microsoft are sitting up to take note and combat child sex abuse on the Internet, the Supreme Court of India Even as technology bigwigs like Google and Microsoft are sitting up to take note and combat child sex abuse on the Internet, the Supreme Court of India has issues a notice to the …

Difficult to ban porn sites: Centre to Supreme Court
11 years, 8 months ago

Difficult to ban porn sites: Centre to Supreme Court

Firstpost  

In response to a Supreme Court notice, the central government has expressed its inability to block all international pornographic websites in India owing to In response to a Supreme Court notice, the central government has expressed its inability to block all international pornographic websites in India owing to technological and legal constraints. Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaisingh described to the …

Difficult to block international porn sites, Centre tells SC
11 years, 8 months ago

Difficult to block international porn sites, Centre tells SC

India TV News  

New Delhi, July 13: Government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it is difficult to block international porn sites in the country and sought more time to consult various ministries to find a solution. Its plea for holding wider consultations came after the apex court pulled up the Government for taking such a long time in dealing with a …

Google sanitizes content to escape lawsuit
13 years, 1 month ago

Google sanitizes content to escape lawsuit

Firstpost  

Google Inc., the U.S-based search engine giant informing a Delhi court that it has already stripped off its websites of all objectionable content comes in as a major update to the ongoing lawsuit filed against 21 social networking websites in the country. Facing the heat, with others The report further stated that, “Seeking dismissal of civil suit, Google Inc said …

Centre to submit papers on sanction for Google, Facebook prosecution
13 years, 1 month ago

Centre to submit papers on sanction for Google, Facebook prosecution

The Hindu  

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Department of Information Technology to submit the papers on sanction for prosecution of Google India and social networking site Facebook for allegedly hosting objectionable contents. Justice Suresh Kait passed the order when Google India counsel said the Union government had no locus to interfere in the matter as it was a complaint …

Objectionable content can't be filtered: Google
13 years, 2 months ago

Objectionable content can't be filtered: Google

The Hindu  

Search engine Google India on Thursday submitted before the Delhi High Court that it could not filter objectionable content posted on websites as it was not a website. Making submission before Justice Suresh Kait, counsel for the search engine further submitted that it had no liability or system to filter objectionable content. The company also expressed its inability to filter …

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