US State Dept TIP Report: Intelligence Source Guide
The annual Trafficking in Persons Report ranks nearly every country on a four-tier scale and attaches real consequences to the...
Human Intelligence
US DOL List of Goods (Child/Forced Labor): Intelligence Source Guide
The US Labor Department names commodity-and-country pairs it has reason to believe are produced with child or forced labour. It...
Polaris Project / Trafficking Hotline: Intelligence Source Guide
Polaris runs the US National Human Trafficking Hotline and publishes the typologies derived from it: the most detailed open account...
NCMEC CyberTipline: Intelligence Source Guide
The CyberTipline is the statutory funnel through which US service providers report apparent child sexual exploitation. Its published statistics are...
INTERPOL ICSE / Crimes Against Children: Intelligence Source Guide
INTERPOL's International Child Sexual Exploitation database is the global victim identification system, accessible only to specialist investigators in connected countries....
INHOPE Hotline Network: Intelligence Source Guide
INHOPE is the international association of national hotlines that receive public reports of child sexual abuse material and route them...
ILO Forced Labour: Intelligence Source Guide
The ILO is where forced labour is legally defined, statistically estimated and country-by-country supervised. Its indicators, conventions and expert committee...
Global Slavery Index (Walk Free): Intelligence Source Guide
The Global Slavery Index is Walk Free's country-by-country estimate of modern slavery prevalence, government response and import risk. It is...
Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative: Intelligence Source Guide
CTDC publishes de-identified, case-level records of individual trafficking victims contributed by IOM, Polaris and partner organisations. It is the only...
Event / Incident: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An event is where every other data point converges: a time, a place, a set of actors, and the messy...
Messaging Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A messaging handle outlives phone numbers, domains and marketplaces. It is the thread that ties an operation together across years...
Real Property / Parcel: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Property is the asset that cannot be moved offshore overnight. Deeds, charges and valuations leave a permanent, dated, jurisdictional trail....
Court Case / Docket: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Court records are the only open dataset where an adversary is compelled to describe their own conduct under oath. Analysts...
Video: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A video is not evidence of what its caption claims. It is a container of measurable facts, and those facts...
Image / Photograph: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Every photograph makes two claims: this is what it shows, and this is where and when it was taken. Both...
License Plate: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A plate identifies a registration, not a person and not permanently a vehicle. It is the most privacy-loaded identifier most...
Vessel / Ship: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A ship can change its name, its flag and its owner in a week. The IMO number assigned at build...
Location / Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A place name is not a point. It is a claim about where something happened, carrying a resolution, a source...
Cryptocurrency Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A blockchain address is a pseudonymous account with a permanent, public and complete transaction history. That combination makes it the...
Onion / Hidden Service: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An onion address is a public key, not a location. Everything you can learn about a hidden service comes from...
File / Document: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Every file carries more than its content. The container, the metadata and the structure record how it was made and...
Biometric Identifier: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Biometrics are the only identifier a person cannot change after it leaks. That single property should govern every decision you...
National ID Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A national ID number is the closest thing that exists to a primary key for a human being. It is...
Social Profile: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A social profile is a persona's self-published intelligence report. The metadata around it is usually more truthful than anything written...
Phone Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A phone number is a globally routable identifier attached to a real contract and, increasingly, to every account a person...
