Senate probe on telcos accountability in increasing number of online sex abuse cases filed
Marcos said telecommunications firms and ISPs seem to be falling short of their duty by law to report cases online sexual abuses and install technology that detect and block the transmission of pictorial and live child pornography being sold online.
The Philippine Internet Crimes Against Children Center were able to rescue 34 minors from Luzon to Mindanao who were involved in online pornography. In filing the resolution, Marcos said it is imperative that the Senate investigates how such cases in March to May alone more than tripled to about 260,000 from a year earlier.
She said Filipinos are particularly more vulnerable due to a culture of silence on sexual abuse. This is on top of the availability of affordable smart phones and Internet data as well as digital cash transfers that make it difficult to track down perpetrators of online child pornography.
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