Matt Parker
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It'll extract data off of a cell phone device and analyze that data.
So really quickly you can figure out, hey, this criminal was regularly calling these five people.
Mm-hmm.
and he was meeting up with them at this Starbucks, and they were managing these victims through a chat group, and you can get that data off of a phone and analyze that, and it's powerful data.
With that one police checkpoint and arrest and those phones, we uncovered the largest human trafficking syndicate in Thailand's modern history.
It led to the rescue of over 400 Rohingya people that were held in these jungle holding camps.
And unfortunately, if they couldn't ransom them, they executed them.
So we found mass graves at these sites.
And we arrested 50 corrupt government officials.
Wow.
Who were involved.
And we took down the kingpin of the criminal syndicate.
That's insane.
Well, I mean, for me, because I feel like my expertise is mostly human intelligence.
Going undercover, working with traffickers to get access to who they're selling, work with the police.
Well, this was the first time I'm like, holy cow, digital forensics, it is a critical player in child safety.
And the other issue there is children.
It is difficult for anyone to take the stand in court and testify of your abuses.
For sure.
It is very challenging for a young child to do that.