CSAM Issue- Initiatives, Challenges and Solutions

• A 2020 report compiling reports of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), puts India at the top of the list of countries. With 19.87 lakh reports originating from India, it accounts for 11.7% of the total reports.
• Experts fear that the CSAM issue would have been aggravated by the lockdowns.

How is India fighting CSAM?

• In the 2013 Kamlesh Vaswani case, a complete ban on pornography was sought. Following court intervention, an advisory committee, formed under Section 88 of the IT Act, ordered the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to disable 9 URLs for hosting contents violating the morality and decency clause of Article 19.
• In 2016, the country’s 1st online portal