Zenon Evans on Promise and Peril in Tech Approaches To Stopping Child Sex Trafficking

Children and teens are trafficked for sex and
exploited for pornography, and the web amplifies this trade. The
National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children received 500,000 potentially explicit images of
minors online in 2004. By 2011 it surged to over 17 million. The
tech world is starting to intersect with the advocacy and outreach
world on how to deal this issue in situations where legislation has
been unsuccessful. Zenon Evans highlights an organization called
Thorn and the pros and cons of their strategies: surveying,
surveilling, and spreading information.

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