ABSTRACT
In 2009, the European Commission adopted the Action-Oriented Paper (AOP) to highlight its future strategy to define a global EU strategy against trafficking. A Swift Action Teams (SATs) should be deployed to support a specific third country, region or international organisation in the area of migration management, for example by assisting third countries in identifying victims of THB at airports. This chapter discusses the role of data collection, and its human rights implications, in anti-trafficking policies. This chapter explores the intersection of data politics with the human rights-based approach to trafficked persons. Data collection instruments are also used by the European Commission, in co-operation with Eurostat, which compiles statistics from its Member States in order to issue regular reports on the quantity of human trafficking within the EU. In the arena of crime prevention, Big Data has become a promising tool to combat and detect crime on the spot, and in real-time, by using predictive policing software.
