Our Strategy: The 10 Points of Disruption
Disrupting Human Trafficking Markets by Denying Traffickers Access
Target Markets Used by Traffickers
Use Data to Identify Suspicious Activity
Disrupt Global Human Trafficking Markets
FIRST OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Realization of Market Opportunity
To start a for-profit business, one must first recognize a market opportunity, often by observing others. Human traffickers do the same, learning from others making money. Imposing severe penalties, like life sentences for traffickers, would deter them by increasing risks and reducing profits.
SECOND OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Workforce Recruitment
To combat human trafficking, we need to understand how traffickers recruit vulnerable people, especially young ones lacking positive role models and living in relative poverty. Using AI to monitor and interrupt grooming behaviors online can help stop traffickers before they exploit their victims. Implementing this AI solution requires cooperation from tech companies and completion of effective models.
THIRD OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Worker Control
FOURTH OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Advertisement
All businesses need customers and must advertise to attract them, including human traffickers who find their clients online. Traffickers use broad advertising to promote their illegal services, which provides valuable data for law enforcement to track and stop them. By analyzing this advertising data with AI, we can predict traffickers’ behavior and disrupt their operations effectively.
FIFTH OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Customer Communication
SIXTH OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Workforce Transport
Human traffickers always need to transport their victims, either physically or through online control. This transport exposes traffickers to detection, creating opportunities to disrupt their activities. Disruption can occur by monitoring and restricting transportation methods, both physical (like planes and taxis) and cyber (like online communication).
SEVENTH OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Service Rendered
EIGHTH OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Payment
Payment systems are a major way to disrupt human trafficking. Traffickers use the same payment methods as everyone else, such as online payment apps, credit cards, and crypto. By using Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations, we can identify and stop trafficking activities through these payment platforms.
NINTH OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Banking
TENTH OPPORTUNITY OF DISRUPTION
Legal Compliance
All businesses must comply with legal standards to avoid criminal or civil consequences, like filing paperwork to start their business and annual tax documents. Government regulations in various industries offer many opportunities to disrupt human trafficking. If traffickers couldn’t source victims, advertise services, communicate with customers, transport victims, rent spaces, accept payments, open bank accounts, or avoid legal consequences, trafficking could be significantly reduced or stopped.
Using Transaction Data to Disrupt Human Trafficking Markets
Human Trafficking markets involve transactional nodes that delineate the commercial interactions between participants. These nodes represent crucial opportunities for stakeholders such as law enforcement, regulators, academic, and industry partners to gather and analyze data, as well as to prevent, detect, and respond to human trafficking.
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