Airbnb Combats Child Trafficking With Expanded Law Enforcement Portal
Photo Credit: Hotels often end up being used in human trafficking operations. In recent years, many hospitality companies have implemented trainings to better help employees identify victims. Airbnb took steps to reduce child exploitation. Adobe / yupachingping
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Sex trafficking and child exploitation is a travel industry problem, and companies need to be activists in fighting these abuses.
Airbnb expanded its law enforcement portal to nine languages as part of the platform's efforts to fight child exploitation, the company said.
The portal, which aims to provide global law enforcement agencies with a secure channel to submit emergency and non-emergency requests for data about Airbnb users, now handles such inquiries in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil) Korean and Japanese. It was initially available in English only.
Airbnb said it only grants requests to verified law enforcement agencies in keeping with its privacy policies and guidelines "when we receive a valid legal request or in emergency situations."
The news about the expansion of Airbnb's law enforcement portal
