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December 26, 2012 08:00 am GMT

In Mexico, Tech Is Used To Help Combat Narco Violence, Insecurity

Mexican flag muralGoogle has been used for many ends, but in the hands of researcher Viridiana Rios, the search engine has become a tool to fight Mexican drug cartels and help the government organize to prevent violence. Rios is a researcher at Harvard University who recently published a paper about a tool she created to track publicly available cartel data and how it can inform Mexican security officials work.

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