Police Crackdown After Kerala Sees 120% Rise In Online Child Sex Abuse As part of a covert operation to crack down against online child sexual abuse material or CSAM, the Kerala Police have arrested 47 people, including young professionals in the state. In total, 89 cases have been filed as part of the raids on Saturday.

Facebook, Google, Others' Encryption Said to Be Threatened by Planned New US Bill US legislation will be introduced in the coming weeks that could hurt technology companies' ability to offer end-to-end encryption, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, and it aims to curb the distribution of child sexual abuse material on such platforms.

22% Jump In Cases Of Child Sexual Abuse In 2018, Says Report According to data by the National Crime Record Bureau, a total of 109 children were sexually abused every day in India in 2018, which showed a 22 per cent jump in such cases from the previous year.

CBI Sets Up "Specialised Unit" To Tackle Online Child Porn The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has a set up an online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (OCSAE) Prevention/Investigation Unit at its headquarter to counter the growing menace of child porn on the Internet, officials said today.

Sexual Assaults Leave Children Mentally "Dwarfed", Says Delhi Court A Delhi court on Saturday sentenced a 40-year old man to five years in jail for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl, saying the sexual assault cripples a child and turn the victim into a "mental dwarf".

Vatican Admits To Secret Rules For Priests Who Have Children: Report The Vatican has revealed that it has secret rules for priests who father children despite their celibacy vows, The New York Times said in a report.

Centre Introduces Amendments To Child Abuse Law In Lok Sabha The government today in the Lok Sabha introduced amendments to the POCSO Act, which provides for death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children.

FBI, Facebook To Meet In Kolkata On Tackling Online Child Sex Abuse Shocking figures have been shared by the International Criminal Police Organisation or Interpol on the growing number of online child sexual abuse cases in India: 2.4 million cases reported in 2017, and that could be just the tip of the iceberg.

Law Ministry Backs Removing Time Cap To Report Child Abuse: Maneka Gandhi The Law Ministry has endorsed a proposal of the Women and Child Development Ministry to remove the time limit for reporting child sexual abuse, WCD Minister Maneka Gandhi said Tuesday.

There Should Be No Time Limit To Report Child Sex Abuse: Maneka Gandhi Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said she has asked the Law Ministry to not keep any age limit to report child sexual abuse, allowing people to complain about what has happened to them even "10-15 years later".

Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit Facebook moderators under contract are "bombarded" with "thousands of videos, images and livestreamed broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide and murder," the lawsuit said.

Google Announces New AI Technology to Fight Online Child Sexual Abuse Google said its cutting-edge AI technology uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online.

To Fight Child Sexual Abuse Content Online, Google's New AI Weapon Google will use artificial intelligence or AI technology to fight content on child sexual abuse, the US-based tech giant said on Monday. It will use the cutting-edge technology that uses deep neural networks to process online images, which will help discover child abuse material online, the company said.

Pope Francis "Begs For God's Forgiveness" For Church Sexual Abuse Scandal Pope Francis in Ireland Sunday "begged for God's forgiveness" for the child sexual abuse scandal rocking the church but faced accusations by a former Vatican official that he had personally ignored allegations against senior clergy.