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Madras HC summons DoT, ISPAI over parental controls plea to regulate internet content

The Madras High Court has summoned the secretary of the Department of Telecommunications and the secretary of the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) for failing to respond to the court’s notice on a plea to regulate children’s Internet use, the Deccan Chronicle reports. It ordered them to appear before the court on April 8 to respond to a petition filed by S Vijayakumar of Madurai. The Court also said that the government and ISPs had an important role to play in providing a parental window and awareness about parental control software. The petition called for ISPs to set up a 'parental window' - an ISP-level parental filter of sorts - that would come built-in with internet connections. It asked that the government and ISPs do more to spread awareness about parental control software. The petitioner also said that the national and the state commissions for the protection of child rights had failed to invoke their powers to prosecute ISPs that did not regulate content. However, it is not clear how such a parental widow could be set up and implemented at the level of ISPs. The government had issued a circular on March 27, 2017, calling on ISPs to spread awareness among their subscriber base about the use of parental control filters. But the court said that it did not know if ISPs had complied with this. Last September the home ministry launched a portal where people could report online sexual abuse, rape and child abuse content anonymously. A joint secretary of the…

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