FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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Don’t Just Trust Us

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Team was in Brussels, Belgium, in January for the Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection conference, a three-day meeting of academics, NGOs, government officials, and corporations concerned about legal and technological issues related to the protection of privacy. In addition to a number of interesting panel discussions, the conference was an [...]

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Collaborating with Google Ideas and Global Impact Award winners to Fight Human Trafficking

It is estimated that there are 21 million people enslaved worldwide.[1] Human trafficking is the third largest global illicit trade and is growing at a higher rate than weapons and narcotics. Men, women, and children are victims of trafficking internationally as well as within the United States. Polaris Project, Liberty Asia, and La Strada International are recipients of [...]

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Hard Data for Hard Journalism

Like the other domains in which our software is deployed, investigative journalism relies on the insight and judgment of human experts. Armed with the right technology and enough data, these experts can achieve extraordinary outcomes. On the Philanthropy Engineering team, we’ve been fortunate to collaborate with passionate, truth-seeking journalists on several inspiring projects, many of which [...]

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News

Palantir named a “Disruptor” by CNBC
CNBC names Palantir as one of top software companies in their inaugural "CNBC Disruptor 50 List."

CNBC, May 15, 2013 View »

Palantir and Salesforce are enabling anti-trafficking organizations to fight back, thanks to funding help from Google
What Palantir is allowing The Global Human Trafficking Hotline Network to do is to make all the data it gathers useful. And in the case of human trafficking, the data the hotline collects becomes useful in two distinct ways: the first for immediate response, and the second for pattern recognition.

Fast Company, May 14, 2013 View »

Google Turns to Big Data to Unmask Human Traffickers
"The alliance announced on Tuesday means the three anti-trafficking networks, which operate emergency hotlines in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, will share data on where the emergency phone calls are originating, the ages of the victims, their home countries, and the types of criminal activities they have been forced into. With the help of Salesforce.com, Palantir, and Google, the agencies will be able to crunch data like this in real time to detect crime trends that they can then share with police and policymakers to help protect victims."

Bloomberg Businessweek, April 15, 2013 View »

Google, Palantir, Salesforce Launch Anti-Human Trafficking Database
Google is teaming up with two other tech giants to create a giant database of human trafficking information. Palantir and Salesforce are offering analytics and data integration tools to three non-profits which operate anonymous call centers which track human trafficking and contemporary slavery. The resulting project will be one of the world's largest databases of human trafficking information.

TechInvestorNews, April 9, 2013 View »