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Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever

Posted by Soulskill on from the you're-just-jealous-about-the-time-magazine-thing dept.

i4u points out an interview with Julian Assange in which the controversial WikiLeaks spokesman calls Facebook "the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented." He continues, "Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo – all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US intelligence. It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use. Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by US intelligence? No, it’s not like that. It’s simply that US intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it’s costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them."

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  1. Yes, I know by jdpars · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I know this and I choose to do this. The difference here is that I hit the accept button. Julian Assange needs to stop trying to tell me what I should and should not do.

    1. Re:Yes, I know by flyneye · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Typical anon cow from America. He capitalizes his emo and doesn't capitalize proper nouns like Assange and America.
      U.S. public school fodder, no doubt about it.

      Dammit, now I'm so irritated at the quality of troll now appearing on /. I can't keep a public school rant out of a stinking Facebook article.

      Probably in the middle of high school, judging by the ironic usage of "morons" and the general lack of a sense of cause and effect. Yup, maybe even a trailer park.

      If we don't start speaking out soon, our very trolls will degenerate. Where do you go "down" to when trolls are a fond memory?

      Damn, they can't even lie convincingly.

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