Meta’s settlement puts the spotlight on platform responsibility. But children’s safety requires digital literacy, parental guidance and safer offline spaces
Rather than choosing between copyright owners and AI developers, the DPIIT panel must work to preserve the conditions under which creative production and technological innovation can flourish
Even if Telegram really is the source of the problem, if access to it is restricted, channels for disseminating the same information will crop up elsewhere. Blocking Telegram solves nothing in such a scenario
What matters is not necessarily the number of weaknesses in a system, but which of those weaknesses can be exploited before they are fixed. This requires a departure from traditional cybersecurity approaches.
Children’s social media use in India frequently operates through a ‘double-proxy’ dynamic. Nearly 71 per cent of the children reported using a family member’s social media account — with adult-registered identities