Human trafficking survivor builds anti-trafficking software in Rust for law enforcement
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Summary
Brooke Deuson, a human trafficking survivor and developer behind the nonprofit Trafficking Free Tomorrow, spoke at RustConf 2025 about building anti-trafficking software in Rust. Her organization creates free, self-contained applications to help law enforcement combat human trafficking. She chose Rust for its performance, safety guarantees, and ability to create portable, self-contained binaries that are easy for law enforcement agencies to deploy without complex dependencies. The talk focuses on her mission, technical choices, and how technology can serve social justice causes.
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She is a survivor of human trafficking herself.
She spoke at RustConf 2025 about her mission, and why she chose to write her anti-trafficking software in Rust.
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