Join Larry Cameron in the fight against human trafficking. Learn about the disturbing reality of this heinous crime and discover ways...

1. Leading the Charge Against Human
Trafficking
Human trafficking is a form of present-day slavery involving the illegal
transport of humans by force or deception for sexual exploitation, labor,
or other activities that help others benefit financially. Traffickers deceive
men, women, and children from every corner of the world and force
them into several exploitative situations every day.
Worldwide, one in four human trafficking victims are children.
However, in several poorer regions of Africa, they make up the majority
of trafficked persons. Women, on the other hand, make up two-thirds of
the world’s human trafficking victims. It is estimated that as many as
1,000,000 people are being trafficked each year globally.
One of the most effective ways to identify a trafficker or a criminal
network is to follow the financial trail they have left behind. With proper
training and guidance, financial institutions and a few non-financial
businesses can identify illicit finance related to human trafficking and
report potential cases. Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative
(ATII) is one such organization assisting Financial Institutions, Money
Services Businesses, and Cryptocurrency Exchanges with implementing
Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection programs within their
Compliance, AML (Anti Money Laundering), CTF (Counter Terrorist
Financing, Sanctions Screening, KYC (Know Your Customer)
Onboarding, and Risk & Fraud departments. ATII provides them with
typologies, training, and assistance with integration in their daily process
and procedures.
ATII also provides the necessary training to several law enforcement
agencies in advanced concepts like Digital Forensics, Blockchain
Forensics, Darkweb Intelligence, Open-Source Intelligence, and various
other investigative techniques.

2. A Veteran Leader
With over two decades of experience in the technology industry, Larry
Cameron is the Chief Information Security Officer at the Anti-
Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) and an OSINT
Investigator for the National Child Protection Task Force.
Larry says, “I was already in the Child Protection field prior to joining
the company. It just made sense to be doing it with other like-minded
individuals. Anyone with a different thoughtprocess is not in it for the
right reasons and should re-evaluate their career path.”
He is also a certified Digital Evidence Investigator, Mobile Device
Investigator, Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator, Triage Investigator,
CipherTrace Certified Examiner, and holds over 50 other Industry, IT,
and Security certifications.
Larry started his career in Electronic Data Systems and worked on
several contracts, including MCI/Worldcom, Hewlett Packard, and Bank
of America. Then he moved on to work for Research in Motion (RIM),
2011 Canada Games, and then to Data Center, Cloud Computing (IaaS
& SaaS), Consulting, Forensics, and Virtual CISO engagements. Besides
serving Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative as CISO, he also
serves as the Blockchain Forensics lead for the National Child
Protection Task Force, a Computer Forensics Professor at St. Lawrence
College, and Head of Cyber Security for the Cyber Rights Organization
at the United Nations.
Larry is a trainer at Interpol for several of their operations, including
WEKA II, which rescued 700 victims and arrested over 300
perpetrators. He co-founded the Anti-Human Trafficking
Cryptocurrency Consortium to foster a collaborative relationship with
companies that generally see themselves as competitors like
Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Bitcoin ATMs, and Blockchain Forensics &
Analytics companies, as well as local, state, federal, and international
law enforcement.

3. Team Culture
Being a non-profit, ATII promotes innovation and creates new
approaches to combat human trafficking and protect the vulnerable.
Many of its members have been or know someone affected by these
heinous crimes at some point in their life. Everyone at ATII supports
each other, the public, and law enforcement, with quite a few volunteers
who want to help with investigations, projects, or operations.
Few Thoughts About CSR
ATII’s mission is: We help financial institutions promote corporate
social responsibility through increasing awareness, facilitating
intelligence integration & technology advancement, and encouraging
strategic data collaboration - to combat human trafficking. The whole
organization if formed around CSR – it’s in our DNA. Our job is to
make it easy, safe, and verifiable for financial institutions to level up
their CSR policies and procedures. Without actively practicing corporate
social responsibility, businesses are less inclined to put people and
planet first.
Working for an Equal World
In the future, ATII will create new tools, curate new data, and train law
enforcement. The non-profit aims to build its Fusion Center to provide
quick incident response on high-priority cases and find digital
breadcrumbs that can help solve cases. It will also develop courses
through a grant to train the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC)
Task Forces. This will give them more advanced knowledge to
investigate and respond to these crimes quickly.