How to Fight Human Trafficking with Technology- with Rebecca Sadwick Shaddix
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Rebecca Sadwick is a social entrepreneur, Technology contributor for Forbes, and researcher for the UCLA Luskin School of Innovation. Her research there has been heavily focused on human trafficking and how technology can intervene. Our conversation really helped me understand the complexity of the issue and why it is so necessary for all sectors of society to collaborate on fighting this issue. She also highlights how online exploitations are just digital manifestations of age-old problems. Just as technology can be used for exploitation, it can also be used to intervene and fight back against human trafficking. We also discuss:
- How traffickers expose vulnerable individuals
- Who is most at risk to being trafficked?
- How A.I. algorithms can combat trafficking
- How the public and private sectors can collaborate
- Difference between federal and state legislation, and the loopholes it creates
- Ways we can curtail demand, thus preventing supply
- How US Culture Affects Trafficking
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