The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) priority measure seeking to strengthen the country’s child online safety framework amid rising cases of online sexual abuse and exploitation involving Filipino children.
Unicef, in collaboration with the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda), and the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) launched on Monday, Oct. 21, a new data portal for situation analysis on children to promote evidence-based decision making.
Sending a strong message that child pornography, among other forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, presents an acute danger worldwide if facilitated through the...
According to network data, Converge increased the sites it has blocked in 2022 by 150% from about 100,000 Web addresses restricted from its broadband network in 2021.
The PLDT Group’s membership in the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s Project Arachnid has played a significant role in boosting the reach of its Child Protection Platform.
PLDT-Smart worked with cybersecurity firm Palo Alto to produce a first-of-its kind child protection platform that prevents access to known child sexual abuse and exploitation materials.
The law would also hold accountable and liable telecom companies, media platforms and Internet services providers for their failure to block, remove, and take other proper actions to ensure the prosecution and conviction of the perpetrators.
Sen. Risa Hontiveros has flagged Facebook groups that are used by teenagers to sell sexual videos and images online to fund expenses in online learning.
