Govt eyes officers in each city to act on 'revenge porn'
Bengaluru, July 23 -- Days after the Madras High Court directed the Union government to evolve a mechanism for women to have their private images and videos uploaded online without consent removed from the internet, the Centre informed the court on Tuesday that it is considering appointing a chief information security officer (CISO) in every Indian city to tackle cybercrime threats and online content violations targeting women.
The submission came in response to justice N Anand Venkatesh's call for a concrete system to address the growing problem of non-consensual intimate media -- or revenge porn -- being disclosed. The court is hearing a petition filed by a woman advocate whose private videos were allegedly recorded and circulated by a fo...
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