Orphan Secure
Partnered with NGOs, law enforcement agencies, corporations, and private citizens across the globe, Orphan Secure which was founded in 2013 works to extract intelligence and insight from large and complex collections of data sets to identify and rescue victims of trafficking by targeting those organizations and bringing them to justice. As part of an effort to combat child sex trafficking around the globe, Orphan Secure launched the "FREEDOM!" app, an anti-human trafficking mobile application available in 10 languages. The team at Orphan Secure is taking a direct action by consulting and training international orphanages threatened by civil unrest, war, or criminal activity and conducting security and vulnerability assessments in order to provide solutions. Additionally, they collect and disseminate big data to which is leading to the identification and rescue of victims of human and child sex trafficking.
What is Big Data?
Big data is a term for a data set that is so large or complex that they are unable to be dealt with by traditional data processing applications. Due to the size and complexity of such data sets processing challenges include analysis, capture, data curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy. The size of big data sets are constantly changing ranging from a few dozen terabytes to many petabytes of data making it intolerable to capture, curate, manage, and process data within a reasonable amount of time. In 2000, a C++-based distributed file-sharing framework for data storage and query was developed in order to deal with big data sets. In 2004, Google produced a process called MapReduce which uses a similar architecture to the C++ framework created in 2000. Google's concept provides a parallel processing model where queries are split and distributed across parallel nodes and processed in parallel.
Resources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data
I really learn something new. I have never thought of this use of big data. This is a very meaningful and serious use. I believe years after, this technique and other new techs will make the process of orphan secure more efficient, and accurate.
ReplyDeleteI read an article recently regarding human trafficking, and I was shocked with how prevalent an issue it still is today. Its great to see companies like this using technology to try and stop these horrible things from happening.
ReplyDeleteI feel like technology like this will evolve to create even more opportunities for law enforcement officials to fight crime on a world-wide level. As new technology will also become available to criminals, in this case human traffickers, its vital that we keep ahead of them in terms of development to keep the world safer for all.
ReplyDeleteVery informative! Computer Science can be applied not only to business use but also to deal with social issues. Using big data to address human trafficking is actually a very effective way. Also I feel like the application of computer science can play a really important role in solving crimes.
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