Covid India: Police warn of cyber criminals during virus crisis
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Delhi Police get several complaints about Covid-19 patients being conned by cybercriminals.
For the thousands suffering from the Covid crisis, there is another fearsome battle that they confront with an additional deadly virus, also starting with the letter ‘C’: cyber criminals.
The Delhi Police has been getting several complaints about Covid-19 patients being conned by cybercriminals. Already involved in battling the Covid tragedy, the police force tweeted:
#DELHIPOLICE ACTION ON COVID CHEATS |
Did someone #cheat you in name of providing oxygen/medicine/hosp bed/remdesivir etc? U paid online & its gone?
4 days ago
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday laid out directions to tackle the issue of removing offensive content from the internet and preventing errant parties from re-posting and re-directing such content. Observing that “the internet never sleeps; and the internet never forgets,” Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said that despite orders passed by the court, online platforms have not been able to “fully and effectively remove” content.
The judgment was passed in response to a petition by a woman who complained that photographs that she posted on her private accounts on Facebook and Instagram were taken without her knowledge and consent and reshared on a pornographic website. While the photographs themselves are not objectionable, they have become offensive by association, thus making the publishing and transmitting of this material an offence under section 67 of the Information Technology Act (IT Act) 2000, the court held.
The Delhi Police has arrested three more people in connection with the Red Fort incident on Republic Day, taking the total number of those in its custody for the violence that took place across the national capital during the farmers' tractor parade to 126, officials said on Saturday.
The three were nabbed by the special investigating team of north district on Wednesday. The crime branch, which is also investigating the cases, formally arrested them on Friday, police said.Police said they have released pictures of over 70 people who were involved whose identification is underway
4 cases lodged for sharing, uploading ‘fake posts’
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One arrested, another apprehended from Rajasthan, and several others ‘identified’
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One arrested, another apprehended from Rajasthan, and several others ‘identified’
The Cyber Prevention Awareness and Detection (CyPAD) unit of Delhi Police has registered four cases against several social media accounts in connection with sharing and uploading of alleged fake posts during the Republic Day violence, officers said on Wednesday. Om Prakash Dhetarwal, 29, a resident of Churu district in Rajasthan, has been arrested for allegedly posting an old video along with fake news of resignation of 200 police personnel.
Another person has been apprehended from Bharatpur, Rajasthan, for posting similar fake news.