The Madras High Court on Wednesday took serious note of the reported absence of statutory rules or guidelines to regulate the conduct of online classes by schools. She impressed upon the need to protect students from sexually explicit pop-up messages during online classes. Representing her, senior counsel S. Prabakaran said that the existing rules under the Information Technology Act of 2000 did not cover online classes. He said that the petitioner was not against online classes per se and that she only wanted regulations to be put in place. A mechanism should be devised to ensure that parents can let the children attend online classes without having to worry about the content that they might end up accessing.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2020 18:11 UTC