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If anybody has any doubt as to why we have to go after human trafficking and sexual exploitation, hammer and tong, these tattoos leave no reasonable doubt. its one thing to have tattoos that you chose to put there. its another to have another human being impose their will on you and to make you acknowledge it in the form of a tattoo that covers your entire back. >> director morton says the public needs to understand that the branding of women by pimps has reached a new level of criminality. >> i...

By traffickers of bar coding women. >> probably about 70% of the trafficking have been barcodes. the youngest victim ive seen was 13. >> tattoo artist chris banker of ink 180 a nonprofit dedicated to erasing tattoos explains. >> they look just like a bar code on a product that you buy in the store, like a upc barcode, but theyll have both numbers and letters usually below the tattoo, sometimes above and below. and if a pimp sees a girl they dont know with a barcode theyll look up that reference ...

By traffickers of bar coding women. >> probably about 70% of the trafficking has been bar codes, the youngest victim ive seen is 13. >> the tattoo artist, and a nonprofit dedicating to erasing tattoos, explains. >> they look just like a bar code that you see in the store, a upc bar code but will have numbers and letters, usually below the tattoos, sometimes above and below. and if a pimp sees a girl they dont know with a bar code, they will look at the reference number and track her back to whoe...

Medication error per hospital patient per day. that means that no one is immune to an error. but it also notes that error rates vary widely across facilities. cnn first covered this emerging trend of robotic pharmacies nearly two years ago. since it made its debut here in 2011, ucsf has added additional safeguards like bar coding the medicine right up to the point its administered to the patient. >> it takes the human element out of picking a drug off the shelf and sending it back to the floor w...

To bring us down because we have so many other patches. >> security experts are saying when the tsa set up its precheck program four years ago issues it knew it could have incorporated a digital signature into the bar coding technology there and that at that point, it may or may not have deliberately chosen to include it. if it had done it at the time, it would not had the flaw and vulnerability we have and not got experts concerned that it could be exploited by terrorist. no word on how quick i...

Im sure we have a very intelligent people working on the issues in trying to identify ways to make the piece of paper uncopyable. >> security experts say that they should have known at the time. they could have incorporated a digital signature into the bar coding software. all the same, passengers here getting ready to travel for thanksgiving and the holidays coming up were shocked to hear about the flaw. take a listen. >> i think they were very good right after september 11th, but they have got...

The technology thats being used is not just a simple bar coding. youre actually inputting more information into your ticket. and so i would suggest to you that the gate agents arent actually a significant level of our security. that the tsa checkpoint, unaccompanied minors are still not going to be board or exit a plane without the handoff and none of that is going to change and if you can introduce productivity, i dont think we should scare the american traveler with the idea that people are ge...

What about the notion lawyers are benefiting financially from malpractice suits? doctors like ob-gyns are retiring early because they cant afford the liability insurance and causing stories like the one i told you. >> the truth is taking away the rights of patients who are injured through no fault of their own will do absolutely nothing to reduce the cost of health care, to provide insurance to the uninsured or in order to improve the quality of health care. 98,000 patients are killed every year...

Insurance to the uninsured or in order to improve the quality of health care. 98,000 patients are killed every year in the united states as a result of preventable medical errors. and the focus should be not on taking their rights away but on patient safety. improves patient safety. every week in this country we have 48 wrong-sided surgeries. every year we have 2 million hospital-acquired infections. many of which could be -- the number of which could be reduced substantially with simple hand wa...

Hospital-acquired infections. many of which could be -- the number of which could be reduced substantially with simple hand washing programs. countless medication errors year after year which could be reduced with simple changes, electronic and bar coding of medication orders. when a patient through no fault of his or her own is overdosed or given the wrong medication they shouldnt have their rights taken away. with respect to defensive medicine i have to say the proof is in the pudding. in stat...