Researchers Use the Bitcoin Blockchain and AI to Trace Sex Trafficking Victims

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The beta block soundtrack and artificial intelligence are used to help parents of trafficked children find missing children.

The University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues, Rebecca Portnoff, have developed a device that allows legitimate advertisers to use sex workers who use the machine to identify the usual patterns of suspicious ads. According to New Scientist, the tool also uses bitcoin public information used to pay for ads to help determine which ads were placed.

Portnoff said that sex traffickers use their internet to access clients without much information.

Carrie Pemberton Ford, Cambridge Center for Applied Research and Trafficking in Human Beings, said the tool would help investigate sex offenders and support prosecution in areas where resources are moving rapidly between financial instruments.

** Some traders use reverse **

About 4.5 million people are forced to use sexual exploitation. The United States advertises many of the secret ads on the Backpage website. A typical sign that advertising involves trafficking in human beings is that the advertiser places a large number of other ads on his site.

It's usually a sign that advertising involves sex trafficking, and the person responsible for this is responsible for many other ads on your site.

** AI examines the style of writing **

The Portnoff Tool examines ways to write ads. Artificial intelligence is highlighted when similar styles are used.

Each bitcoin transaction can be logged on to a block that does not save identities, but every bitcoin user has a wallet stored next to their transaction. The AI ​​tool looks for a floorboard to identify the wallet corresponding to each ad.

Portnoff said that posting each ad is easy to see. He looks at the price and timing of the ad, then links it to a particular person or group, giving the police a good research team.
The tool reduces the number of ads the police have to read for their research.

** tool proves **

The researchers tested this tool in 10,000 ads in four weeks, correctly identifying 90% of ads from the same author. The test gave a false positive result of only 1%. One bitcoin wallet was responsible for sex advertising for $ 150,000 worth.

Back did not respond to comments submitted by New Scientist report. The Portnoff team works with a variety of police and non-governmental organizations.

One human trafficker who took the drug and took his 13-year-old daughter was detained and sentenced to prison for five years.

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