Internet giants are 'profiting from pop-up brothels': Firms such as Facebook and Google are 'enabling' smuggling gangs to pimp out their victims
Internet giants have been accused of profiting from sex trafficking by enabling 'pop-up brothels' in Britain.
Firms such as Google and Facebook were raking in cash from vulnerable young women who are smuggled into the UK and forced to work as prostitutes in temporary sex clubs and massage parlours, said the National Crime Agency (NCA).
Tech companies have become 'key enablers' in the sexual exploitation of women trafficked from abroad, said the organisation.
Ministers are now considering introducing new laws to make the multi-billion-pound businesses liable when smuggling gangs use their websites to 'pimp' their victims to men who pay for sex.
Organised criminals are running so-called 'pop-up brothels' to move women rapidly from place to place to make it harder to find them. They rent a property and operate prostitutes for a month then move on before anyone notices.
Police have warned of gangs using tourist hotspots to run pop-up brothels in holiday lets, including Newquay in Cornwall, Cumbria's Lake District and Derbyshire's Peak District.
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