Bengaluru, Oct. 18 -- The Supreme Court has said the Union government's Sahyog Portal can provide the "foundation for a national database to detect and remove child sexual exploitation and abuse material (CSEAM) across online platforms". The observation comes as the portal itself faces legal challenges before the Supreme Court and several high courts and the court has called for "coordinated mechanisms to detect and remove" CSEAM from online platforms. In its order passed on October 15, a bench of justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran said the Sahyog Portal could provide the "foundation for such a database". The database will contain verified digital fingerprints, known as hashes, and URLs of CSEAM, allowing intermediaries to identify ...