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Unlawful content on Internet
January 6 , 2025
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- The Union Ministry of Home Affairs and various State governments have roped in around 54,800 persons as cybercrime volunteers to flag unlawful content on the Internet.
- The Cyber Volunteer Framework enables citizens to enrol as cyber volunteers for reporting unlawful content, dissemination of cyber hygiene, and as cyber expert to aid law enforcement.
- The report had stated that 54,833 cyber volunteers have been enrolled, including 22,942 for reporting unlawful content, 22,071 awareness promoters and 9,819 experts.
- On an average, the cybercrime portal linked with the nodal police stations in the States and banks, receives 67,000 calls every day and security agencies identify around 1,500-2,000 mule accounts that are used to defraud people daily.
- From January to March, 2024, there were at least 1,10,925 cybercrime complaints involving platforms such as WhatsApp (43,797 complaints), Telegram (22,680), Instagram (19,800), Facebook (20,766) and YouTube (3,882).
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