Much of this information is publically available, but it exists in the 90 percent of the so-called “deep Web” that Google, Yahoo and other popular search engines do not index. DARPA is creating Memex to scour the Internet in search of information about human trafficking, in particular advertisements used to lure victims into servitude and to promote their sexual exploitation. Department of Defense is developing to help catch and lock up human traffickers.Īlthough the Defense Department and the prosecutor’s office had not publicly acknowledged using the new tools, they confirmed to Scientific American that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Memex program provided advanced Internet search capabilities that helped secure the conviction. A key weapon in the prosecutor’s arsenal, according to the NYDA’s Office: an experimental set of Internet search tools the U.S. The accident was an act of both desperation and hope-the woman had climbed out of the sixth-floor window to escape a group of men who had been sexually abusing her and holding her captive for two days.įour months ago the New York County District Attorney’s Office sent Benjamin Gaston, one of the men responsible for the woman’s ordeal, to prison for 50-years-to-life.
In November 2012 a 28-year-old woman plunged 15 meters from a bedroom window to the pavement in New York City, a devastating fall that left her body broken but alive. Editor's note (11/16/15): Following the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 and the ensuing debate about counterterrorism efforts and encrypted communications, Scientific American is republishing the following article.
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