Kochi: The Kerala state commission for protection of children’s rights (KeSCPCR) has asked the IT secretary to take appropriate action to ensure that children below the age of 18 years are not allowed to open accounts or use Clubhouse, a social media app. If any such incident involving children is reported, the account should be deleted or cancelled. The IT secretary has been directed to issue guidelines to investigating agencies for frequent cyber patrolling and to check illegal activities and fake accounts by minors. The single bench of the commission was hearing a complaint filed by an Alappuzha resident who said that he heard children participating in a Clubhouse conversation which had sexual content and they were being encouraged and instigated to join the sexual discussion. In its response, the state police Cyberdome cell expressed its apprehension that children could be getting into Clubhouse using fake accounts. While Cyberdome has not come across any complaint so far, they did not rule out the possibility of such incidents. “The mechanism to ascertain whether it’s really a child engaged in such an activity is very limited, other than drawing inferences from the conversations shared by the user over such groups, like age,…
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Restrict kids on 'Clubhouse', Child rights panel to IT, cops
