Service: Tracing labour exploitation - Tracing potential victims of human trafficking

Responsible organisation: Inspectorate SZW (Central-Government)

Inspectorate SZW works together with ABN-Amro and the UvA to trace labor exploitation (human trafficking) by applying pattern recognition to baking information. SZW has supplied various risk patterns, which are traced in banking data with scripts. These connections are then checked by persons. If approved, this can be a motive for a further investigation by the Financial Intelligence Unit into suspicious transactions. Based on that investigation, the public prosecutor can decide to write a warrant, which the judge can use as cause for a further investigation. If so, address and transaction details will be supplied by the bank. These are used to trace potential victims – not perpetrators – of human trafficking. This pilot uses linear scripts which are then vetted for false positives by a human controller. The possibility of using machine learning to hone this process with machine learning in the future is under investigation, as well as possible expansion to 4 other large banks.

Additional information

Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://nos.nl/artikel/2273390-mensenhandel-opgespoord-via-bankgegevens
Start/end date 2019 -
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