Intel Solutions Help to Combat Modern Slavery
November 22 2022 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Intel, Hope for Justice and R3 collaborate
to help protect the rights of modern slavery victims through the
use of confidential computing.
What’s New: Intel, enterprise technology and services
firm R3 and nonprofit Hope for Justice are working together to
build a pilot application that enables organizations combatting
modern slavery to confidently share sensitive data related to
individual cases with the enhanced privacy protections offered by
confidential computing. The Private Data Exchange, built for Hope
for Justice, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization working to
end modern slavery and human trafficking, aggregates and analyzes
data, then notifies the appropriate agencies when relevant data
matches are identified.
“As security technology creators, we have
both the responsibility and the opportunity to help protect every
person’s data and privacy. We’re seeing this occur through
confidential computing advancements – the innovations we are
bringing forward today will help us facilitate change and soon
become the standards for how we operate tomorrow.” –Paul O’Neill,
director of strategic business in Intel’s Confidential Computing
Group
How It Works: Confidential computing enables encrypted
data to be processed in memory while lowering the risk of exposing
it to the rest of the system. It reduces the likelihood that the
sensitive data of those affected by human trafficking will be
compromised or misused.
Hope for Justice’s Private Data Exchange application takes
advantage of the industry-leading security capabilities delivered
by Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), the security
features built into 3rd and 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable
processors. These features are designed to help provide protection
for data-in-use, independent of the cloud provider, operating
system or hardware configuration. They also enable multiple
organizations to collaborate on shared analyses and validate
algorithms while shielding confidential or regulated data from
other parties.
“Human traffickers are exploiting new technology and
globalization at a staggering scale and pace. Most trafficking is
now facilitated via the internet and other digital technologies
that pay little attention to borders or jurisdictions,” said Tim
Nelson, CEO of Hope for Justice. “We cannot lose the technology
race against human trafficking. That is why we are so pleased that
the Private Data Exchange platform has the potential to
revolutionize how the sector collaborates across borders and
tackles issues surrounding data privacy and confidentiality. For
the first time, civil society, governments, U.N. agencies and
businesses can truly collaborate to make technology a force that
will help to end human trafficking.”
By leveraging the built-in security and attestation features of
Intel SGX and R3’s Conclave platform, the application can provide
organizations with confidence that information on slavery victims
or those seeking to help them are better protected from their data
being exposed. Conclave provides the tools necessary for
organizations to run code without the burden of managing a complex
infrastructure, putting the power of Intel SGX into the hands of
developers and enabling them to write privacy-first applications
with ease. This combination opens new possibilities for
organizations seeking to benefit from the enhanced security of
confidential cloud computing.
Why It Matters: Globally, organizations working on human
trafficking cases have collected large pools of valuable data on
both victims of slavery and perpetrators, as well as contextual
information relating to emerging patterns and trends. Given the
data’s sensitivity, there is a reluctance to collaborate on
sharing, meaning maintaining high security and compliance is
mission critical. To reap the benefits of collaboration, each
organization must utilize trustworthy security solutions that help
keep data confidential and private, and aid in ensuring the data’s
integrity.
Confidentially matched information will enable participating
organizations such as nonprofits, national actors and
intergovernmental agencies to realize tangible outcomes in the
fight against slavery and enable victims of human trafficking and
modern slavery to be better identified, rescued and provided the
services they need. For instance:
- Perpetrator name matching: If the same person appears in
multiple matches, they may be involved in numerous cases of
trafficking and be a serial offender or part of organized crime.
The appropriate group can begin an investigation or notify law
enforcement.
- Victim family name matching: Discovering the same
surname in multiple cases may indicate that two or more family
members have been trafficked separately. Linking the two cases may
accelerate rescue and help reunite the family.
- Address matching: If the same property keeps showing up
in results, it may be owned or operated by perpetrators or criminal
organizations. This can be enough to trigger an investigation.
- Lower-level contextual matching: If information, like
location and industry, doesn’t present an active investigation
opportunity, it can still reveal critical trends and trigger future
outreach efforts.
Overcoming many of the obstacles to data sharing enables Hope
for Justice to prepare to use the Private Data Exchange in
consortium with national and intergovernmental stakeholders in
direct response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Europe. The
increased prevalence of human trafficking is a critical moment for
both innovation and intervention, and this is an example of how
technology plays a part.
More Context: Intel® Software Guard Extensions | R3/Hope
for Justice News Release | Building a High-Performance and
Efficient Future for Our Data Center Customers | Chalk Talk:
Security Strategy and Products | Confidential Computing | Intro to
Confidential Computing and SGX
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