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Big Data To Identify Human Trafficking

  • Bloomberg, Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:39 AM

The southern California coastline remains littered with boats that human traffickers abandon after bringing those who want to illegally cross borders into the U.S. Google will award a $3 million grant as part of its Global Impact Award program to a trio of anti-trafficking organizations, along with its tech expertise through its Google Ideas task force, teaming with Palantir Technologies and Salesforce.com to build a data-sharing platform that will enable officials to search and identify global patterns on how the human-trafficking trade operates and how to better protect the victims, reports Bloomberg.

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