Huge police databases armed with Amazon’s facial recognition are harvesting online sex ads of exploited children and consenting sex workers alike. Forbes finds that even when wielding a mass surveillance arsenal, cops can and do fail to keep sex workers and trafficking victims safe.
Huge police databases armed with Amazon’s facial recognition are harvesting online sex ads of exploited children and consenting sex workers alike.finds that even when wielding a mass surveillance arsenal, cops can and do fail to keep sex workers and trafficking victims safe.
“If you get one phone number, or one picture of a girl who is being trafficked, you’re never going to run out of new leads,” they said. While sex work is illegal across most of America, there have long been calls for decriminalization, which would help prevent the “very real harms” caused by police snooping, says Kate D’Adamo, a sex worker advocate.
Marinus didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. On its website, it says it is “cautious” about uses of AI and facial recognition outside of finding missing persons and sex traffickers. “Regardless of the legality of sex work, the issues of organized crime, human trafficking and missing persons remain our focus,” the company writes.As a sex worker, Sarah sought clients in an innocuous-looking redbrick area of suburban Washington, D.C.
While police regularly spy on sex workers to compile evidence of trafficking, even some cops balk at what was done to Sarah. “That’s crazy to think that somebody is being trafficked, and you’re going to let her get physically, sexually abused, you’re going to watch the trafficking occur, all so you can build a case on [the trafficker], it’s absolutely ridiculous,” said Scaramucci, the Waco detective, who also trains police across America on how to investigate trafficking.
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