Telangana Govt to act tough against pornography

The Telangana Government is seeking help of IT experts and ethical hackers to control the spread of pornography.

Information Technology Minister K Tarakarama Rao on Saturday held a meeting at Cyberabad Commissionerate with the senior police officials, IT experts and top ethical hackers to discuss the issue. It is proposed to conduct a ‘Porn Hackathon’ within three weeks by top ethical hackers which will lead to throwing up of several ideas and Apps to achieve this objective.  The role of ISPs (internet service providers), the education and awareness campaign over the visual, print and social media to be carried out and the implementation of the IT Act were also discussed in depth in the meeting. 

The IT Minister informed that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was highly concerned on the issues relating to women and child safety. The government had also set up the Poonam Malakondaiah Committee which studied the issue in depth and came up with several recommendations regarding women and child safety.

One of the issues plaguing and compromising the safety and security of women and children is the extensive transmission and viewing of child porn and general pornography.  Therefore, the IT Minister discussed in detail the intention of the State Government and the steps need to be taken to control transmission and viewing of child porn to start with and porn in general. 

IT Secretary Harpreet Singh, Cyberabad Commissioner CV Anand, Home Secretary Soumya Mishra, Ramesh Ranganathan of HYSEA, Priya of NASSCOM and other senior officials attended the meeting.