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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. it's one thing to have tattoos that you chose to put there. it's 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. >> it is a particular depravity to tattoo somebody, to mark them as your property. and that is what is...

By traffickers of bar coding women. >> probably about 70% of the trafficking have been barcodes. the youngest victim i've 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 they'll have both numbers and letters usually below the tattoo, sometimes above and below. and if a pimp sees a girl they don't know with a barcode they'll look up that reference number at an underground website and track them back to whatever code owns her and contact that ...

By traffickers of bar coding women. >> probably about 70% of the trafficking has been bar codes, the youngest victim i've 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 don't know with a bar code, they will look at the reference number and track her back to whoever "owns her" and contact that pimp and asks what they want to do, and usually it is if she ran a...

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 it's administered to the patient. >> it takes the human element out of picking a drug off the shelf and sending it back to the floor where the patient is. where even if you got that right 99% of the time, you know, we give something ...

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 it plans to close the flaw. >> rick: thanks. >> arthel: as we mentioned earlier, in a few weeks from ...