Globe intensifies online safety efforts
Telecommunications company Globe has recorded a significant increase in its efforts to block online content related to child pornography and illegal gambling in the first half of 2024. The company…
PLDT, Smart, FFH train coaches in child online protection
PLDT and Smart team up with Football for Humanity (FFH) to offer Psychological First Aid (PFA) training to football coaches. This initiative targets the multi-sectoral fight against online sexual abuse…
PLDT, Smart block more than 10,000 links tied to online sexual child exploitation
Following the report on being able to block 9,000 sites linked to child abuse, PLDT Inc. and its wireless subsidiary Smart clamp down more than 10,000 more sites as part…
PLDT, Smart begin blocking on content level, upping war vs online child abuse
In an advisory, telecommunications firms PLDT and Smart Communications said the companies started blocking content as they continue the fight against online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC). The…
DICT tells telcos, ISPs to comply with law against online child sexual exploitation
A study from the International Justice Mission says that the Philippines was the largest known source of OSAEC (online sexual abuse and exploitation of children) cases in the world while…
PLDT-Smart cybersecurity group ramps up fight against online sexual exploitation of children
Due to extreme poverty, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, reported cases of OSAEC (online sexual abuse and exploitation of children) increased by 264%, based on the figures by the Philippines’…
Outdated, conflicting policies affect PH response to rising online abuse and exploitation of children
Special Report Everyone was forced to stay at home and adapt to the new normal when the enhanced community quarantine was imposed in Metro Manila and some parts of Luzon…
SaferKidsPH, ANZCHAM join forces against online sexual exploitation of Filipino children
The Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce (ANZCHAM) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UNICEF, on behalf of the SaferKidsPH Consortium, to help address the online sexual abuse and exploitation of…
Organized, concerted, targeted efforts may help prevent online sexual abuse of children
According to statistics online portal Statista, as of January 2020, the number of internet users in the Philippines grew to 73 million people, accounting for more than half of the…
Expert: Cybersex trafficking is a ‘family-based crime’
“I like to run around the yard with my friends, I like to color, I like to make jewelry and I like reading.” According to records provided, in 2016, along…
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