A New Spin on Big Data and the Dark Web
September 12, 2016
While most of us are occupied with finding best Labor Day deals over the Internet, Chris White is developing technologies to save lives from the dark world of sex trade.
In the article “The Man Who Lit the Dark Web ,” the author states that
An estimated 21 million people are being trafficked around the planet. More than half are women and girls. More than 1 million are children. Nearly one-quarter are bought and sold as sex slaves. Only 1-in-100 victims of human trafficking is ever rescued. It’s a booming business. High profits and low risk make human trafficking one of the fastest-growing and most lucrative crimes on the planet; the U.N. recently estimated that trafficking nets $150 billion a year.
With Dark Web, traffickers have realized that its easier for them to operate away from the eyes law enforcement. The article asserts:
The “surface” Web, or open Web, represents between 5 and 20 percent of what’s out there. The rest resides in places that most crawlers can’t reach or index. Some data are “deep,” in password-protected places like social media and message boards, or in increasingly common dynamic websites—which are more like apps than pages from a book, and change when you interact with them, like Kayak. The rest of the Web is “dark.”
White’s approach is to tackle the Dark Web with Big Data. The author of the article spent a decade of his life helping US Army track, penetrate and destroy financial networks of terrorist organizations. Will the Big Data approach actually work?
Certainly White, a Microsoft employee, is helping. Agencies like Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and similar organizations may have to channel research funds into initiatives like White’s. Otherwise, the payoff from commercial innovations will put a lid on efforts like White’s.
Vishal Ingole, September 12, 2016
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