Friday, 24 June 2016

US to Introduce Mobile App TraffickCam to Drop down Sex Trafficking Cases in Hotel Rooms

New York: A new mobile-phone app, TraffickCam, was introduced in the United States to try to help the victim of sex trafficking. The app, suitable for all type smart phones-Android, Apple and Google, was designed to trace sex traffickers in a hotel and the victims as well who are held commonly in hotel rooms. 


The app will work this way- TraffickCam asks its users to click a photo of a room they are detained. The image will then be compared to the photos by law enforcement that depict suspected sex trafficking.
Launch of the mobile application is assumed to be a follow-up after  the national human trafficking resource centre, united states estimated that more than 4000 cases of sex trafficking took place only on last year. However, the number excludes minors, those who are the worst victims of sex trafficking in the United States, as the U.S Department of Justice has asserted.
Developer Abby Stylianou, a programming researcher at the University of Washington in St. Louis, noted that TraffickCam judge against carpeting, furniture and accessories as the comparing features. She said that the app have assembled a ‘trove of some 1.5 million photos’ of hotel rooms, she said.
“Law enforcement is always looking for new and innovative ways to recover victims, locate suspects and investigate criminal activity," said Sgt. Adam Kavanagh of the St. Louis County Police. St. Louis County Police is the one who are so far using TraffickCam officially in mas level.
However, Stylianou, well aware about the limitations of the app, said that the initiative is very small if compared to the problem. She also noted the brighter side though saying that not all the sex trafficking cases take place in hotel rooms, but the initiative will help to drop down the count of trafficking happens in hotel rooms.



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