How to Responsibly Create Technological Interventions to Address the Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors
For the last year, students in the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic and Clinic
director Phil Malone have been pursuing a project to better
understand how technology is used to facilitate human trafficking and
the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Yesterday Phil Malone
joined a group of researchers in signing on to a primer, prepared by danah boyd, for technologists who are working or planning to work in
this space. The goal of the document is to bridge the gap between
technologists and trafficking researchers and to provide important
context and an understanding of the complexities of the issues to
inform better and more responsible research. danah's blog post
describing the primer and her path-breaking work in this area may be found here, and the report is online here.