About this Talk

The aim of the proposed symposium is to explore the wicked problem of human trafficking, looking specifically at how human traffickers are incorporating digital technology into their criminal activity to trap and exploit people using deception, violence, or coercion. Traffickers are now leveraging digital technology to recruit and control their victims, using keywords on social media to identify potential victims and using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to isolate and track both victims and those willing to pay for them as labor or for sexual exploitation. This panel will offer intersectional testimonials from survivors of human trafficking, but also analyze human trafficking AI-prevention technologies.

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About The Speakers

Julius Kaka

Field Network Coordinator for East and Southern Africa, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

Shawna Hill

Featured in a national documentary that is now in colleges and universities helping educate health care professionals on indigenous issues. I am a trafficking survivor

Dr Delon Omrow

Centennial College

Member of the INTERPOL Wildlife Crime Working Group and author and researcher on transnational organized crime at Centennial College

Vanesa Singh

Centennial College

Community and Justice Services Student Class Peer Leader of Community and Justices Services Program

Dr. Isabel Pedersen

Digital Life Institute and Ontario Tech University

Expertise in emergent technologies and policy for ethical usage of them.

Technology and Trafficking: Risks and Prevention in the Digital Age

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Technology and Trafficking: Risks and Prevention in the Digital Age

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