The YT video below is an interview with Marc Goodman, a man with law enforcement background who now specializes in cyber crime. He is promoting a new book he wrote called "Future Crimes" and raises some important issues in the interview. He discusses terrorism, hacking and all that, but he also discusses the uses and abuses of personal information by the likes of Google, Facebook, Paypal, and other "legit" businesses. The sale of personal information is rampant and has lots of real world impacts on all of us.
Worth listening to.
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By Marc Goodman Posted March 16, 2015
You thought you knew the Internet. But sites such as Facebook, Amazon, and Instagram are just the surface. There’s a whole other world out there: the Deep Web.
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http://www.popsci.com/dark-web-revealed
