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2 weeks ago

Apple sued for dropping CSAM detection features from services, devices

Announced in 2021, the plan was for Apple to scan images on iCloud for child abuse material using on-device technology. While Apple retained a nudity-detection tool for its Messages app, the CSAM detection feature was dropped in 2022 amid privacy and security concerns The latest lawsuit argues that Apple’s decision has perpetuated the sharing of illegal material online and broken …

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Apple faces $1.2 billion lawsuit for failing to prevent distribution of child sexual abuse material via iCloud

India Today

Apple is facing a $1.2 billion lawsuit filed in the US District Court in North California, alleging that the company failed to protect victims of child sexual abuse by discontinuing its planned detection feature for Child Sexual Abuse Material. The case, filed on Saturday, was initiated by a 27-year-old woman who claims that Apple’s actions allowed images of her abuse …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Telegram makes a U-Turn on child protection: What this means

New Indian Express

NEW DELHI: In a significant policy shift, Telegram has agreed to work with the Internet Watch Foundation, a leading organization focused on identifying and removing child sexual abuse material online. This move marks a major change for the popular messaging app, which has faced criticism for allowing criminal activities such as child exploitation, drug trafficking, and fraud to proliferate on …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Does India Need Inspiration From the EU’s Proposed Regulation to Combat CSAM?

The Quint

Countries around the world, including India, face increasing pressure to address and control online child sexual abuse. The scope of the problem is broad, involving various forms of exploitation and abuse, including the production and distribution of child sexual abuse material, online grooming, and live-streaming abuse. In 2022, the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children received more than 31 …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Telegram under Indian security scanner in multiple cases

Hindustan Times

Telegram, the popular messaging application, is facing mounting scrutiny in India as it emerges as a hub for a wide array of criminal activities. The Delhi Police officer said, “Whenever we reach out to them, they respond with the last login’s IP address which is often of little help.” Two government officials, who asked not to be named, said Telegram …

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4 months ago

NCPCR likely to seek clause for parents’ consent under data protection rules

Hindustan Times

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights is likely to write to the ministry of electronics and information technology, asking it to prescribe methods in the upcoming draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules to verify parents’ or guardians’ consent for the use of children’s data, the body’s chairperson said on Tuesday. “There is a need to start verification of …

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6 months ago

Europe’s rewritten Chat Control proposal evokes sharp responses

Hindustan Times

Even as the European Union is expected to revive and further deliberate a proposal that could see all messaging accounts screened for possible child abuse content, it has drawn criticism from tech and web security companies. Rewritten proposal widens scope “It is crucial that services employing end-to-end encryption do not inadvertently become secure zones where child sexual abuse material can …

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7 months ago

Pocso cases reveal uneven grip of law

New Indian Express

For at least the second time this year, the judiciary’s understanding of the POCSO Act and its provisions on child sexual abuse material has come under the scanner. The Supreme Court rightly slammed the judgement, as the high court’s verdict was an incorrect reading of the two laws. Now, the Delhi High Court has undertaken a suo motu revision petition …

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11 months ago

Courts can’t be lenient on downloading child abuse material

Hindustan Times

January 11, 2024, was a black letter day for the Madras high court when it held in Harish v. Inspector of Police that downloading and viewing child sexual abuse material or child pornography was not an offence. The Madras HC erroneously relied on a Kerala HC judgment under Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code of 1860 to exonerate the …

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54 years, 11 months ago

No, the FBI has not confirmed ‘pizzagate’ is real

Associated Press

CLAIM: The FBI has confirmed that the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory is real. THE FACTS: In the latest sign that “pizzagate ” is making a comeback online, social media users are claiming the FBI has acknowledged the long-dormant conspiracy theory is actually true. Some of those reviving the theory in recent days are sharing a screenshot of a post by The …

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1 year, 1 month ago

NHRC issues advisory regarding Child Sexual Abuse Material on internet

Hindustan Times

The National Human Rights Commission has issued a new advisory to protect the rights of children by combating the production, distribution, and consumption of Child Sexual Abuse Material on the internet. The four-part advisory released by NHRC on Friday aims to address the legal gaps in laws concerning CSAM and offers suggestions regarding training officials and offering support to survivors …

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1 year, 2 months ago

No child sexual abuse material on platform: YouTube

The Hindu

YouTube said on Monday that it did not detect any child sexual abuse materials on its platform nor evidence of such from the regulators. We are committed to work with all collaborators in the industry-wide fight to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material," the spokesperson added. Our child safety policy expressly prohibits “sexually explicit content featuring minors and …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Telegram vows to tackle child sexual abuse material on the Indian internet

India TV News

Encrypted messaging platform Telegram has reaffirmed its commitment to upholding legal and ethical standards on its platform, particularly when it comes to addressing issues related to Child Pornography, Child Sexual Abuse Material, and Rape and Gang Rape content on the Indian internet. This statement came in response to notices from the Indian IT Ministry, which had sent similar notices to …

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1 year, 2 months ago

India cracks down on CSAM: Ultimatum for X, YouTube, and Telegram | Here's what it means

India TV News

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has recently issued warnings to social media platforms including X, YouTube, and Telegram, instructing them to promptly remove any Child Sexual Abuse Material from their Indian internet services or face consequences. Union Minister of State for Electronics & IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, stated, "We have sent notices to X, YouTube, and Telegram to ensure …

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1 year, 2 months ago

YouTube, X and Telegram receive notices on child sexual abuse material

The Hindu

YouTube, Telegram and X have been told to proactively filter child sexual abuse material out “on the Indian Internet”, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said on Friday. In a statement, a YouTube spokesperson said: “We have a zero-tolerance policy on child sexual abuse material. The Stanford Internet Observatory said in a report in June that it ran PhotoDNA, …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Misinformation is a complex, industry-wide problem, Instagram India’s Policy Head says

The Hindu

Meta on Wednesday announced its partnership with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for the G20 Stay Safe Online Campaign. The ‘DigitalSuraksha’ campaign aims to create and spread content on staying safe online in multiple Indian languages. Meta will work with the Delhi Police on a 2-month long programme to provide digital literacy to 10,000 students across various schools …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Elon Musk stoked a storm of homophobic harassment with false claims about Twitter’s former head of safety

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. That did not stop Twitter users from targeting Roth with a flood of homophobic abuse, false accusations, …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Layoffs Have Gutted Twitter’s Child Safety Team

Wired

Removing child exploitation is “priority #1”, Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk declared last week. Based in Twitter’s Asian headquarters in Singapore, the team enforces the company’s ban on child sex abuse material in the Asia Pacific region. The impact of layoffs and resignations on Twitter’s ability to tackle CSAM is “very worrying,” says Carolina Christofoletti, a CSAM researcher …

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2 years, 2 months ago

An online fight where children need to be saved

The Hindu

Last month, the Central Bureau of Investigation conducted searches across States and Union Territories as part of a pan-India operation, “Megh Chakra”. ‘Aarambh India’, a Mumbai-based non-governmental organisation, partnered with the IWF, and launched India’s first online reporting portal in September 2016 to report images and videos of child abuse. On the legislative front, the committee not only recommended the …

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2 years, 2 months ago

CBI raids to find child sex abuse video creators

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday carried out mega searches at 59 locations in 21 states including Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and a Union Territory, in connection with two cases of online circulation of child sexual abuse material as part of Operation ‘Megha Chakra’. “This operation is one of the CBI-led global operations in recent times for rapid response to …

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2 years, 2 months ago

CBI conducts biggest crackdown against circulation of child pornography material, raids 59 locations across country

Firstpost

The raids, part of Operation Megha Chakra, were launched after the agency registered two cases based on inputs from the Crime Against Children unit of Interpol, based in Singapore, which had received it from the New Zealand Police New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday carried out searches at 59 locations across 21 states and a Union Territory in an internationally …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Anti-child-sexual-abuse drive:

The Hindu

The Central Bureau of Investigation on September 24, 2022, conducted searches at 59 locations across 20 States and one Union Territory, as part of a pan-India drive against the circulation and sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material. “The suspects are being questioned to identify the child victims and the abusers,” said an agency official, adding that the operation was one …

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2 years, 7 months ago

An EU Law Could Let US Prosecutors Scan Phones for Abortion Texts

Wired

The drive to protect children online will soon collide with an equal and opposing political force: the criminalization of abortion. And while many of us might sign up for a future in which algorithms magically detect harm to children, even the EU admits that scanning would require “human oversight and review.” The EU fails to address the mathematical reality of …

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54 years, 11 months ago

The EU Wants Big Tech to Scan Your Private Chats for Child Abuse

Wired

All of your WhatsApp photos, iMessage texts, and Snapchat videos could be scanned to check for child sexual abuse images and videos under newly proposed European rules. The proposed law creates a new EU Centre to deal with child abuse content and introduces obligations for tech companies to “detect, report, block and remove” CSAM from their platforms. The law, announced …

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Apple sued for dropping CSAM detection features from services, devices

Apple faces $1.2 billion lawsuit for failing to prevent distribution of child sexual abuse material via iCloud

Telegram makes a U-Turn on child protection: What this means

Does India Need Inspiration From the EU’s Proposed Regulation to Combat CSAM?

Telegram under Indian security scanner in multiple cases

NCPCR likely to seek clause for parents’ consent under data protection rules

Europe’s rewritten Chat Control proposal evokes sharp responses

Pocso cases reveal uneven grip of law

Courts can’t be lenient on downloading child abuse material

No, the FBI has not confirmed ‘pizzagate’ is real

NHRC issues advisory regarding Child Sexual Abuse Material on internet

No child sexual abuse material on platform: YouTube

Telegram vows to tackle child sexual abuse material on the Indian internet

India cracks down on CSAM: Ultimatum for X, YouTube, and Telegram | Here's what it means

YouTube, X and Telegram receive notices on child sexual abuse material

Misinformation is a complex, industry-wide problem, Instagram India’s Policy Head says

Elon Musk stoked a storm of homophobic harassment with false claims about Twitter’s former head of safety

Layoffs Have Gutted Twitter’s Child Safety Team

An online fight where children need to be saved

CBI raids to find child sex abuse video creators

CBI conducts biggest crackdown against circulation of child pornography material, raids 59 locations across country

Anti-child-sexual-abuse drive:

An EU Law Could Let US Prosecutors Scan Phones for Abortion Texts

The EU Wants Big Tech to Scan Your Private Chats for Child Abuse