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Silicon Valley's Online Slave Market

Silicon Valley is enabling an illegal online slave market by hosting apps used for the buying and selling of domestic workers in the Gulf. BBC News Arabic's undercover investigation exposes app users in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale. The story of this child’s journey to Kuwait and return to her home in Guinea in West Africa, is at the heart of this powerful and shocking investigation into Silicon Valley's Online Slave Market.

English
  • Originally Aired October 29, 2019
  • Runtime 51 minutes
  • Production Code m000d4r9
  • Network BBC News
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