HUMAN TRAFFICKING APP—PUBLIC AWARENESS AND HELP
Use TraffickCam to take pictures of your hotel room to help stop sex trafficking.
Often traffickers will post photographs of their victims in hotel rooms for online advertisement. By uploading these photographs to TraffickCam, you can help investigators better identify hotel rooms used in advertisements. By identifying the exact hotel, investigators can use these photographs as evidence for prosecution.
“The purpose of TraffickCam is to create a database of hotel room images that an investigator can efficiently search, in order to find other images that were taken in the same location as an image that is part of an investigation.”
Visit TraffickCam.org to download the app and find more information.
About TraffickCam
TraffickCam enables you to help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of the hotel rooms you stay in when you travel.
Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. These photographs are evidence that can be used to find and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes. In order to use these photos, however, investigators must be able to determine where the photos were taken.
The purpose of TraffickCam is to create a database of hotel room images that an investigator can efficiently search, in order to find other images that were taken in the same location as an image that is part of an investigation.
TraffickCam was created in 2015 by the Exchange Initiative. The Exchange Initiative is committed to combating commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). Their mission is to provide resources, information and networking solutions to combat sex trafficking in the United States.
The Exchange Initiative was created by Nix Conference & Meeting Management to empower individuals and organizations with real resources to help end sex trafficking. Nix Conference & Meeting Management is one of just 13 U.S. companies and 43 worldwide honored as a 2014 Top Member by the internationally recognized Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct (TheCode.org) for their exceptional work to integrate child protection practices into their business.
The research and development of the TraffickCam application and image search is lead by Dr. Abby Stylianou and Dr. Robert Pless, at George Washington University, and Dr. Richard Souvenir at Temple University. This team of researchers has applied their collective decades of experience in computer vision and machine learning to develope state of the art approaches to recognizing hotels in images of victims of sex trafficking.Forms of Abolition:
Awareness
Forms of Slavery:
Sex Trafficking