Matt Parker
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When undercover for the first time 2011 bright neon lights tourists from all around the world are there to buy people for and there's tickers on each corner of an alleyway and they have photography actual positions or child social placement they're selling it all they're
Yeah, thanks for bringing me in.
Yeah.
In Vegas, so it worked out.
Yeah, it was great.
Yeah, a lot of travel, but enjoy what I do.
Yeah, we're a global nonprofit fighting human trafficking, and we do several things.
We partner with law enforcement to identify victims of human trafficking and advocate for police action.
That's really the genesis of what we began to do, and it's evolved over the years, and now we have aftercare shelter where we care for victims that are coming out of human trafficking, help them
Find healing through counseling services and then help them find work, which is a big component of their freedom.
And then we're in school systems with awareness, talking about digital safety and how to avoid exploitive situations all around the world.
Yeah.
It's really unfortunate to see how the world has opened up to criminals through social media and digital platforms, even things like cryptocurrency being leveraged to remain anonymous while they exploit vulnerable people.
I'm not that familiar.
Yeah.
One of the things that we did with the nonprofit this year, this last couple of years, is we've rolled out a digital safety training called Influenced.
And it addresses this exact vulnerability of young people
in the online space, interfacing with strangers, right, in the end.
And with voice modification, an old man can sound like a young man or a young woman.
And so young people are very trusting at times because they kind of think, well, they can't harm me.