MIT students, Guardian Group hold 'hackathon' in Bend to help stop sex traffickers

Guardian Group continues to partner with Academia, Corporations, Veterans, and Thought Leaders across the United States to Bring the Fight to Sex Trafficking- most recently working with MIT and exchanging information with Lincoln Labs.

Guardian Group's model is mainly two-fold for a problem that is extremely complex, incorporating both defensive and offensive strategies. The first goal is to engage skilled, trained veterans to enable law enforcement to pursue predators. Secondly, Guardian Group helps prevent future activity through training of law enforcement, government agencies and those working in the travel and hospitality industries, where sex trafficking occurs, to identify criminals and the victims caught in their webs. Pairing the talents of data scientists and engineers with Guardian Group's expertise in counter network operations is leading to better ways to track leads using technical data and other techniques and tactics to combat sex trafficking.