Ordinary web users are literally shocked when understand the existence of the Deep Web, a network of interconnected systems, not indexed, having a size hundreds of times higher than the current web, around 500 times. For instance, Invisible Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the one billion of the surface Web. All services, web pages, platforms or social network we commonly use (such: Facebook, Google, Amazon etc.. etc, are free for the simple reason that they are used to compile user profiles and collect information to sell to private companies and agencies for a large variety of purposes. The funniest part is that no hacker or cyber criminal steals any confidential information in this case, but we provide them spontaneously all information they need.
All services, web pages, platforms or social network we commonly use (such: Facebook, Google, Amazon etc.. etc, are free for the simple reason that they are used to compile user profiles and collect information to sell to private companies and agencies for a large variety of purposes. The funniest part is that no hacker or cyber criminal steals any confidential information in this case, but we provide them spontaneously all information they need.
Library Philosophy and Practice 2010
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