{"id":1035821,"date":"2026-09-16T09:34:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035821"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:12:43","slug":"child-safety-non-negotiable-meta-agrees-to-report-sexual-abuse-cases-to-law-enforcement-centre-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/child-safety-non-negotiable-meta-agrees-to-report-sexual-abuse-cases-to-law-enforcement-centre-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Child safety \u2018non-negotiable\u2019: Meta agrees to report sexual abuse cases to law enforcement, Centre says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has agreed to report child safety-related matters to appropriate law enforcement agencies, government sources said on Tuesday, asserting that online safety of children is a &#8220;fundamental principle&#8221; for any social media platform operating in India and absolutely &#8220;non-negotiable&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The government will take action against platforms that fail to take proactive steps to ensure children&#8217;s safety online, the sources said, underlining its tough stance on platforms&#8217; responsibility to protect minors from harmful content and activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has agreed to report child safety-related matters to appropriate law enforcement agencies, government sources said on Tuesday, asserting that online safety of children is a &#8220;fundamental principle&#8221; for any social media platform operating in India and absolutely &#8220;non-negotiable&#8221;. The government will take action against platforms that fail to take proactive steps to ensure children&#8217;s safety online, the sources said, underlining its tough stance on platforms&#8217; responsibility to protect minors from harmful content and activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035843,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035821\/revisions\/1035843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}