In the first week it rolled out its facial recognition tool, Marinus Analytics — a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff that has been creating software to mine the deep web for sex traffickers since 2014 — identified and rescued two victims.
Andreas Olligschlaeger, a research scientist at Marinus Analytics, said the Oakland company sits outside the tech mainstream because the company measures its success in how many children it can save. So far, there have been about 250 rescues in two years, he said.
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