An Algorithm to Pinpoint Human Traffickers
We love applications of machine learning that actually benefit society. Here is one that may soon be “Taking Down Human Traffickers Through Online Ads,” reports the Eurasia Review. The algorithm began as a way to spot anomalies (like typos) in data but has evolved into something more. Now dubbed InfoShield, it was tweaked by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and McGill University. The team presented a paper on its findings at the most recent IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering.
A new bill in Texas seeks to protect children from getting sex change procedures that they may regret later in life by criminalizing parents who do so.
I just found this information listening to a podcast with Jay Dyer and Tim Kelly talking about organized crime. Apparently their was this millionaire real estate and oil man named Francis D. Shelden who owned a island in Lake Michigan and is called North Fox Island. He bought North Fox Island and ran a boy’s camp called Brother Paul’s Children’s Mission which was a front for making child pornography which was sold abroad on the international and national black market. He also was a big brother in the Ann Arbor YMCA’s Big Brother program and found victims that way.
Human trafficking organizations sending men, women and children over the US-Mexico border to take advantage of President Biden’s backfiring immigration policies earned as much as $14 million per day in February, according to 
