Facebook is the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented!

I have been concerned about the web and social security from the days social media emerged.
Recently, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange expressed his thoughts regarding facebook and asociated security risks. Here is what he said-

 In his interview, Assange focuses particularly on Facebook calling it the “most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented”.


Explaining in more detail, Assange affirms:

Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other, and their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US Intelligence.”

According to Assange, it doesn’t stop with Facebook. He believes the social network is joined by Google, Yahoo and other major US organisations that have “built in interfaces for US Intelligence”:

It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena, they have an interface they have developed for US Intelligence to use. Now, is the case that Facebook is 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 to them.

It’s costly for them to hand out individual records, one by one, so they have automated the process.

 The Wikileaks founder then warns Facebook users, stating that if a user adds their friend to Facebook, they are “doing free work for US Intelligence agencies, in building this electronic database for them”.

The full video has been embedded below, Assange’s thoughts on Facebook, Google and Yahoo begin around the two minute mark:

Assange says his website’s revelations are “just the tip of the iceberg”, adding that it’s only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known.

Read the full article and watch his interview here