Good Tech, Bad Tech: Policing Sex Trafficking with Big Data

Technology is often highlighted in popular discourse as a causal factor significantly increasing sex trafficking. However, there paucity of robust empirical evidence on trafficking and the extent to which technology facilitates it. This has not prevented proliferation beliefs that essential for disrupting or even ending Big data analytics anti-trafficking software are used this context produce knowledge intelligence paper explores challenges limitations understanding exploitation through algorithms online data. It also highlights key dimensions ignored big data-oriented research By doing so, seeks advance our theoretical trafficking–‍technology nexus, it argued must be reframed along continuum sensitive social within market.