{"id":80468,"date":"2018-07-08T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/this-company-is-using-facial-recognition-to-fight-human-trafficking"},"modified":"2018-07-08T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T21:22:41","slug":"this-company-is-using-facial-recognition-to-fight-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/this-company-is-using-facial-recognition-to-fight-human-trafficking","title":{"rendered":"This company is using facial recognition to fight human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-company-is-using-facial-recognition-to-fight-human-trafficking.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve heard so many stories lately about the frankly horrifying degree to which facial recognition leads to tracking or privacy invasions. But a startup specializing in AI is instead leveraging facial recognition technology to find human trafficking victims.<\/p>\n<p>Marinus Analytics is a startup that licenses technology to law enforcement with the express purpose of fighting human trafficking. It\u2019s founder and CEO, Emily Kennedy, created a program called Traffic Jam during her time at Carnegie Mellon that uses AI tools to identify victims. Nowadays, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinusanalytics.com\/trafficjam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Traffic Jam<\/a> is available to any law enforcement agency that works with Marinus.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinusanalytics.com\/trafficjam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marinus\u2019 website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/world\/2018\/06\/01\/this-company-is-using-facial-recognition-to-fight-human-trafficking\/\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/world\/2018\/06\/01\/this-company-is-usin...afficking\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve heard so many stories lately about the frankly horrifying degree to which facial recognition leads to tracking or privacy invasions. But a startup specializing in AI is instead leveraging facial recognition technology to find human trafficking victims. Marinus Analytics is a startup that licenses technology to law enforcement with the express purpose of fighting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}