TraffickCam

Exchange Initiative

About this app

TraffickCam enables you to help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of the hotel rooms you stay in when you travel.

Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. These photographs are evidence that can be used to find and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes. In order to use these photos, however, investigators must be able to determine where the photos were taken.

The purpose of TraffickCam is to create a database of hotel room images that an investigator can efficiently search, in order to find other images that were taken in the same location as an image that is part of an investigation.

Ratings and reviews

I recently stayed at a hotel and quickly snapped 4 pictures like I've done for years with this app, before letting everyone get comfortable in the room. After checking out of the room, I had a chance to upload the photos, but now see the app update no longer allows that. Not as convenient as before when you are limited on time or signal/wifi. I'll have to change the way I use the app in the future and I guess toss the recent photos.

l used this app for years with no trouble at all. Tried to use it on my last trip, and found essentially every step unworkable. Aside from the tech-inspired (as opposed to user-friendly) photography changes, I couldn't even either access the hotels list or input the hotel myself. Total waste of my time now. Uninstalled.

New app version is horrible and is only getting worse. Constant lock ups when trying to take pictures and after clearing cache and storage, restarts training, and freezes when trying to to take very first room picture. Old version simply worked and allowed me to upload easily, including from image folder. Want to support, so please fix these issues.

What’s new

This update increases the targeted API SDK.