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Human Trafficking & Tech

What is it?

  • Modern day slavery
    • Estimates
      • 20 mil globally
      • 1.5 mil in developed countries
      • 1 of 1,000 trapped in jobs they were coerced into
    • Facts
      • 2nd largest criminal enterprise
      • happening around you
      • lack of data

How is technology enabling human traffickers?

  • Anonymity with Recruitment & Advertisement
    • Craigslist & Backpage & Job recruitment sites
    • Deep Web & Tor

How is technology helping to combat it?

  • Memex
    • Search engines that scours the deep web for a specific subject
    • Indexes website on the Tor network *LaborLink
    • Anonymous reporting of working environments for factory works
    • 765,283 workers reached in 16 countries
    • 2,336,964 data points collected *Redlight Traffic
    • Mobile app that educates and provides a simple, anonymous way to report suspicious activity *TraffickCam
    • Mobile app that utilizes crowdsourcing to build up a database of hotel rooms
      • First 2 weeks: 70,000 downloads, 22,000 new photos
      • Current database: 1.5 million photos of over 145,000 hotels

How else can we use technology to fight?

  • Awareness - social media sharing, mobile app development
  • Cross Platform Big Data sharing
  • More Data Analysis Software
  • Sharing Ideas & Innovation
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