TraffickCam enables you to help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of the hotel rooms you stay in when you travel.

    Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. These photographs are evidence that can be used to find and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes. In order to use these photos, however, investigators must be able to determine where the photos were taken.

    The purpose of TraffickCam is to create a database of hotel room images that an investigator can efficiently search, in order to find other images that were taken in the same location as an image that is part of an investigation.

    TraffickCam was created in 2015 by the Exchange Initiative. The Exchange Initiative is committed to combating commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). Their mission is to provide resources, information and networking solutions to combat sex trafficking in the United States.

    The Exchange Initiative was created by Nix Conference & Meeting Management to empower individuals and organizations with real resources to help end sex trafficking. Nix Conference & Meeting Management is one of just 13 U.S. companies and 43 worldwide honored as a 2014 Top Member by the internationally recognized Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct (TheCode.org) for their exceptional work to integrate child protection practices into their business.

How in the world could image recognition tell apart the zillion hotel rooms that look identical? And what good does it do to know the room? It's not like the trafficker hangs out in a single hotel room.

Summary: Crowdsourced pictures of interiors of hotel rooms, geolocated. When traffickers post pictures from hotels, similar interiors can be detected and reverse-geolocated to narrow down investigations.

This is a great way to further correlate your location to your social media presence.

You should DEFINITELY take pictures everywhere you go, and you should DEFINITELY get those pictures online ASAP.