https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/traffickcam/id1067713017?mt=8
Police find an ad for paid sex online. It's an illegally trafficked underage girl posing provocatively in a hotel room. But police don't know where this hotel room is -- what city, what neighborhood, what hotel or hotel room. This is where the TraffickCam phone app comes in. When you're staying at a hotel, you take pictures of your room... The app logs the GPS data (location of the hotel) and also analyzes what's in the picture -- the furniture, bed sheets, carpet and other visual features. This makes the hotel room identifiable. Now when police come across a sex trafficking picture online, there is a database of images that may reveal which hotel room the picture was taken in.
Downside is that app user can probably be tracked (I'm not tech savvy, so I really don't know)
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carmencita ago
I don't even understand it, that's how savvy I am. Someone please translate please.
AssFaceSandwich2 ago
Computer software can analyze the structure of a room via a picture: the walls, the bed(s), the furniture, artwork or lack thereof, perhaps even colors of walls etc.
If an app allows users to take a picture of their room while staying at a hotel, sending the image to their database, the image can then be analyzed against the background walls, artwork, furniture of rooms used for recording child porn With that, the police will be able to find where these things are being made and perhaps shut down sleazy hotspots or to help with stings etc.
carmencita ago
If this is true and will really work, it will be like a policeman under the bed. This will help our cause immensely.