Companies collaborating with global experts to help eradicate human trafficking using technology
Our Mission
Our mission is to work with civil society, academia, technologists, and leaders with lived experience to advance the use of technology to prevent, disrupt, and reduce human trafficking and to address the misuse of technology to facilitate the crime.
Why Tech Against Trafficking?
49.6M
People in Modern Slavery
Human trafficking and forced labor are complex, thriving crimes that impact every country. There are an estimated 50 million people worldwide living in some form of modern slavery. Given the widespread nature of the abuses and the complexity of tackling them, increased engagement by all stakeholders, especially the private sector, is vital.
Through their expertise, capacity for innovation, and global reach, technology companies can play a major role in preventing and disrupting human trafficking and forced labor and supporting individuals with lived experiences. Digital technologies offer opportunities for a step change in tackling this crime. Tech Against Trafficking works to accelerate the development, scale, and impact of these.
At the same time, traffickers are using technology tools and platforms to recruit victims and improve the efficiency of their operations. Tech Against Trafficking works to address the misuse of online platforms to facilitate human trafficking.
Technological solutions to date include mobile apps that help identify victims of sex trafficking; satellite imagery that tracks down fishing vessels carrying victims of forced labor; and web scraping tools that aggregate child abuse images to help law enforcement track down children in need of help. But there are many more tools out there in need of support. Tech Against Trafficking hopes to accelerate the development, scale, and resulting impact of these tools.
Latest News and Insights
TAT Recommendations for an Industry Traceability Data Standard
AI, data centers, and cloud platforms are powered by vast, globally distributed supply chains—yet it’s still difficult to see far enough upstream to manage risk, strengthen resilience, and protect human rights. Tech Against Trafficking (TAT) brought together a Working Group with partners at Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to identify areas where existing transparency standards should be enhanced to solve for challenges faced by these users. The outcome is our new publication: TAT Recommendations for an Industry Traceability Data Standard.
From Innovation to Impact: Key Takeaways from the 2025 Tech Against Trafficking Summit
BSR shares takeaways from the 2025 Tech Against Trafficking Summit, where participants discussed how innovative technology, increasingly driven by AI, can be a powerful enabler to fight modern slavery when responsibly and carefully designed and deployed.
Tech Against Trafficking Summit 2025
The Tech Against Trafficking summit will gather business leaders, anti-slavery experts, policymakers, governments, academia, technologists, and individuals with lived experience to discuss how to harness the power of technology to address modern slavery in its different forms—including forced labor in supply chains, human trafficking, and forced criminality facilitated through online platforms.
Survivor-Centric Platform Practices
This memo outlines recommendations for tech companies to adopt “survivor-centric platform practices, ” i.e., practices that incorporate the perspectives of individuals with lived experience. It draws from consultations conducted by the TAT secretariat in May-June 2025 with survivors, survivor organizations, and other anti-trafficking experts.