"On Dec. 28, 2016, President Barack Obama published the annual proclamation of January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing next-generation search technologies to help investigators find the online perpetrators of those crimes."
"the program, called Memex, is designed to help law enforcement officers and others perform online investigations to hunt down human traffickers." link to memex site http://archive.is/1VoqW
“Our goal is to understand the footprint of human trafficking in online spaces, whether that be the dark web or the open web,”
“Victims of sex trafficking are often sold as prostitutes online, and a number of websites are the advertising point where people who want to buy and people who are selling can exchange information, or make deals. “ That's What we're looking for,”
“If we could do that,” he said, “we could … generate leads for investigators so they wouldn’t have to sift through millions of ads in order to find the small number of ads that are associated with trafficking. So that's what we did.”
“Since the beginning of the program, we've had a strong relationship with the district attorney of New York, but they're not the only user of the technology. Over time, we have engaged with many different law enforcement agencies, including 26 in the United Kingdom, the district attorney of San Francisco, and a number of others,”
“there have been hundreds of arrests and other convictions by a variety of law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad.” red - due to memex
“we have hundreds of people who are working on this effort. All of them are very dedicated to this problem, because the problem of human trafficking is real.”
When Shen’s team started the program, one of the things they realized was that the cost of people in these spaces, the cost of slaves, is essentially zero, he added.
“That means our lives are essentially worthless in some sense, and that just seems wrong,”
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tjarco ago
all from source, most of these are quotes from Wade Shen, a DARPA program manager
https://media.defense.gov/2017/Jan/04/2001683900/600/400/0/161220-D-ZZ999-997.JPG Heatmap of trafficking
"On Dec. 28, 2016, President Barack Obama published the annual proclamation of January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing next-generation search technologies to help investigators find the online perpetrators of those crimes."
"the program, called Memex, is designed to help law enforcement officers and others perform online investigations to hunt down human traffickers." link to memex site http://archive.is/1VoqW
“Our goal is to understand the footprint of human trafficking in online spaces, whether that be the dark web or the open web,”
“Victims of sex trafficking are often sold as prostitutes online, and a number of websites are the advertising point where people who want to buy and people who are selling can exchange information, or make deals. “ That's What we're looking for,”
“If we could do that,” he said, “we could … generate leads for investigators so they wouldn’t have to sift through millions of ads in order to find the small number of ads that are associated with trafficking. So that's what we did.”
“Since the beginning of the program, we've had a strong relationship with the district attorney of New York, but they're not the only user of the technology. Over time, we have engaged with many different law enforcement agencies, including 26 in the United Kingdom, the district attorney of San Francisco, and a number of others,”
“there have been hundreds of arrests and other convictions by a variety of law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad.” red - due to memex
“we have hundreds of people who are working on this effort. All of them are very dedicated to this problem, because the problem of human trafficking is real.”
When Shen’s team started the program, one of the things they realized was that the cost of people in these spaces, the cost of slaves, is essentially zero, he added.
“That means our lives are essentially worthless in some sense, and that just seems wrong,”
GREAT FIND OP!