Salesforce sold software to the company which is engaged in human trafficking

At the end of March, 2019 it became known that Salesforce.com sold the software to the website Backpage.com which was engaged in human trafficking and sale of sexual services.

50 women who became the victims of such dealers submitted a claim to the Supreme Court of California. Affirms as the claim that the technology giant Salesforce, well-known by the charitable and human rights efforts, should bear responsibility for illegal business of Backpage. It is mentioned that tools of Salesforce allowed Backpage to support the database of dealers and souteneurs during crisis of 2013. And Backpage not just sold to Salesforce the ready-made solution – affirms as the claim that the company developed and implemented the user database for support of work of the website in the USA and other countries. Hardly news about the legal claim appeared in media, stocks of Salesforce at the New York Stock Exchange fell from $158.50 to $152.39.

Salesforce sold software of the company which is engaged in human trafficking

It is known that FBI closed the confidential advertizing website Backpage in April, 2018 because of the section for adults in which advertizing about sexual services and trade in minors was posted. The CEO of Backpage Carl Ferrer pled guilty of assistance of prostitution and to money muling later.

The representative of Salesforce answered that for the company it is extremely important to support ethic and humane use of its products, however so far refused comments about the expecting judicial proceedings. Salesforce - one of six companies participating in an initiative "Against human trafficking" within the Socially Responsible Business program. This program is described as "the coalition of the technology companies cooperating with global experts for the purpose of human trafficking eradication".^[1]

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