That’s why TraffickCam, a new app, is urging vacationers to upload pictures of their hotel rooms. The goal is to create a database of hotel rooms to match up against photos that pimps post online.
Traffickers often upload photos of their victims in hotel rooms as a form of advertisement, assuming authorities will be unlikely to identify where the picture was taken. TraffickCam hopes to change that.
Patterns in the carpeting, furniture, room accessories and window views are matched up against the database of photos submitted by travelers in order to provide law enforcement with a list of potential hotels where the image could’ve been taken,
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