Law Enforcement

National Commission for Women launches anti-human trafficking cell

The cell has been set up with an aim of not only helping trafficked survivors but also increasing awareness among law enforcement officials and to facilitate their capacity building

Facebook execs bat for encryption on its products despite attorney general's backdoor access request for law enforcement purposes

Barr said drug cartels, child pornographers and other criminals increasingly used and hid behind messaging apps

Facebook's plans for new encryption measures on Messenger could annoy law enforcement

The company is also considering banning the use of Messenger accounts not linked to regular Facebook profiles

WhatsApp hack: Congress should wait for facts to emerge rather than float conspiracy theories about Modi govt snooping

There are a lot of unanswered questions and loopholes in the narrative, but that hasn’t stopped the Congress from accusing the BJP-led NDA government of snooping and calling on the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance of these “illegal activities” and “hold the government to account”.

WhatsApp hack: Pegasus scandal highlights India's self-destructive lack of oversight over its intelligence services

In 2018, Citizen Lab first published findings demonstrating that an Israeli company, NSO Group, had exploited vulnerabilities in operating systems to create Pegasus, a system capable of hijacking targeted phones

Largest child pornography dark web network busted, hundreds of people arrested worldwide

Welcome To Video relied on bitcoin to sell access to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse.

Facebook's end-to-end encryption could come to an end as US, UK fight child abuse and terrorism

Facebook said in a statement that it strongly opposes “government efforts to build backdoors.”

Asserting control over data by enforcing data localisation policies is wrong

But for democracies, like India or the US, data localisation is altogether the wrong approach to law enforcement in digital society.

Sloppy investigations and exaggerated claims, CBI's poor work ethics make it unworthy of 'elite' status

Not only does the CBI have a poor conviction rate of just 3.96 percent in major crimes, the investigation agency has also failed to live up to its motto of industry, impartiality, and integrity

Record rise in suspicious transactions, fake currency notes in 2015-16, Rs 560 cr unearthed

Suspicious transaction reports (STRs) rose from 58,646 to 1,05,973 during the period