This
facial recognition tech**logy could help stop online child trafficking
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Emily Kennedy spent her undergrad years reading
child ***-trafficking ads.*
She wanted to understand their ticks: Why was
This ad formatted that way? Why did the same ads often have different phone numbers? Kennedy knew that
This kind of analysis
could unravel at least a portion of ***-trafficking business. And after she graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University, she built a system to do just that.*
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Traffic Jam, which was developed by Kennedy's company, Marinus Analytics, has for years detected patterns in ***-trafficking ads and used them to
help police find trafficked children and arrest traffickers. The system took a big step up on Tuesday, though.
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