Gandhinagar, July 10 (IANS) The Gujarat Police’s Cyber Centre of Excellence on Friday arrested seven people for allegedly operating an interstate online fraud and extortion racket that targeted customers who purchased sexual enhancement medicines through social media advertisements, with investigators saying the group may have cheated between 4,000 and 5,000 people across the country. The department said the operation dismantled a 15-seat call centre in the Vastral area of Ahmedabad and prevente…
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Jodhpur/New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday granted bail to a man accused of morphing a minor girl’s photograph and uploading it on social media, while imposing stringent conditions, including a three-year ban on the use of online platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Thread and Snapchat. A single-judge bench of Justice Ashok Kumar Jain of the Jodhpur bench passed the order while allowing the bail plea of the accused in a case registered at Bheem police station in Rajs…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said it will pass an interim order protecting the personality and publicity rights of cricketer Abhishek Sharma in a suit seeking the removal of alleged unauthorised and objectionable online content that misuses his identity across digital platforms. A single-judge Bench of Justice Jyoti Singh issued summons in the suit and indicated that interim directions would be passed to remove and take down the infringing links identified by the pl…
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Bangladesh’s newly enacted data protection law contains no mandatory breach notification requirement even after the Shwapno supermarket ransom case that compromised data of forty lakh registered customers, a new report has said.The report from Bangladesh-based The Daily Star said that the final voter list for the country’s 13th parliamentary election being sold openly on Facebook highlighted gaps in the law’s enforcement architecture.A Dismislab investigation found…
Bhubaneswar, July 7 (IANS) The Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate Police on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old youth from Angul district for allegedly creating and circulating AI-generated, morphed and defamatory content targeting high constitutional dignitaries, including Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, on social media. The accused, Manoranjan Pradhan, is a resident of Patakumunda village, under the Bagedia police station limits in Angul district. He was arrested in connection with a cas…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday declined an urgent hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking action over alleged derogatory remarks made against Prophet Muhammad in a viral social media video, asking the petitioner to first approach the police authorities and follow the ordinary legal process. When the matter was mentioned before a Bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Sheel Nagu, the apex court refused to entertain the plea for urgent listing at this stage …
Surat, July 5 (IANS) The Surat Cyber Crime Cell on Sunday arrested a 32-year-old man accused of operating a Facebook-based brick sale scam that investigators say is linked to five fraud cases across Gujarat, including one recently registered at the Dumas Police Station in the city. Police identified the accused as Narendrabhai alias Gyanprakash alias Shivam Saraswat, a native of Gangashahar in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district, who was living at Salasar Residency in Surat’s Godadara area.He has studi…
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) Meta on Sunday said it maintains a zero tolerance policy towards the solicitation or sharing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including through advertisements, asserting that it uses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology to proactively detect and remove violating content while continuously strengthening its safeguards against offenders.In a statement, a Meta spokesperson said the company is in a constant battle with criminals who attempt to evade its det…
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw has reportedly directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to summon officials of Meta over advertisements hosted on Instagram that allegedly promoted child sexual abuse.According to sources, the ministry will seek an explanation from the US-based technology company over how such advertisements appeared on Instagram, one of its social media platforms, and the safeguards…
Guwahati, July 2 (IANS) An FIR has been lodged against Yunus Tamuli, leader of the organisation ‘Bagh Sena’, at the Sivasagar Sadar Police Station in Assam over alleged obscene and derogatory remarks targeting women on social media, officials said on Thursday.The complaint was filed by Jagriti Nari Samaj, a women’s organisation, accusing Tamuli of posting offensive comments on Facebook that allegedly insulted the dignity of women.According to members of the organisation, the Facebook post contai…