Business Trend. Short Term Rentals Combatting Sex Traffickers. 2 Policy Steps.

AirBnB announced it would utilize the following business policies and protocols to feret out sex traffickers utilizing short term rentals.

Or, in tech speak, they will “leveraging the innovation of the sharing economy” to:

  • combine its existing risk analysis by
    • screening every host and guest
    •  trawling through photos to check for signs of exploitation
  • utilizing “data and insight from Polaris, a charity which runs the US National Human Trafficking Hotline”

Telegraph | Airbnb promises to prevent ‘pop-up brothels’ at its rental properties