This just in: "Nationwide Sting Operation Targets Illegal Asian Brothels, Six Indicted for Racketeering"

[Tom Mitchell]

Artur,

Terrific - congratulations to you and your whole team on again showing how
your research goes all the way to making a practical, positive impact!

best,
Tom


On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:37 AM Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Fellow Autonians,
>
> I am very happy to report that our Traffic Jam software helped identify
> and nab a major international organization conducting sex trafficking
> activities in multiple countries and multiple states throughout the United
> States.
>
> Please see the release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of
> Oregon, linked below.
>
> Even though neither CMU nor our spinoff Marinus Analytics names are
> mentioned in the document, it is a fact that the federal agencies involved
> in the process of tracking the indicted perpetrator's activities, as well
> as the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) mentioned in
> it, have been using the results of the analyses conducted with our software
> to guide their investigations. It turns out that our software triggered the
> first alerts of the suspicious activities of this very organization as
> early as three years ago. We are very glad that those and other subsequent
> findings obtained with Traffic Jam were correct, informative, and that they
> ultimately led to the currently announced indictions. Some of the apparent
> perpetrators are in custody and they will stand court trials, and so until
> convicted they are presumed innocent. We all hope that the potentially
> numerous victims, involved in the activities these individuals are being
> accused for, will all be rescued and will have a good chance to return to
> their normal, safe lives.
>
> Cara and Emily from Marinus Analytics are working with the representatives
> of NCFTA to determine if and how this achievement could or should be
> publicized more broadly, so please keep the news as internal only until
> further notice.
>
> Huge congratulations to the Auton Lab and everyone who contributed to
> developing and deploying Traffic Jam!
>
> Cheers,
> Artur
>
>
> https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/nationwide-sting-operation-targets-illegal-asian-brothels-six-indicted-racketeering
>


-- 
Tom M. Mitchell
E. Fredkin University Professor
Interim Dean
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom
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