To contemplate the future of the Dark Web, we need to also discuss the Deep Web, since they are intrinsically related. As I explained in Chapter 1, Understanding the Deep and Dark Web, the Dark Web is a sub-section of the Deep Web. The future is almost always unclear, especially regarding technology, which progresses in leaps and bounds, and is usually, not in a linear fashion.

If you remember, the Deep Web's difference from the Surface (WWW) Web is the fact that the sites and content there aren't crawled or indexed, so won't be accessible via standard search browsers.

Organizational content and intranets are part of the Deep Web, but more and more of them are being relocated from on-premise solutions, to cloud-based environments, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. There is a concern among users of these technologies that the vendors are collecting information about them.

For example, Google has talked about non-stop collection of data,...