https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/23/synthetic-dataset-of-human-trafficking-victims-could-allow-big-data-work-without-privacy-compromises/

In order to combat human trafficking effectively, those combating it must understand it — and these days, that means data. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons there is no convenient index of trafficking victims, though this confidential information is in some ways abundant. Microsoft and the International Organization for Migration may have found a way forward with a new synthetic database that has all the important characteristics of the real trafficking data, but is completely artificial.

While each victim is unquestionably individual, basic high-level questions like which countries are increasingly the source or means of trafficking, which routes and methods are used, and where the victims end up are a matter of statistics. The evidence to identify trends and patterns, crucial to prevention, is locked up in thousands of these individual stories that most would prefer not to publicize.