Facebook most appalling spying machine ever: Assange
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 03 May 2011, 22:03 IST
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Facebook most appalling spying machine ever: Assange
Bangalore: Julian Assange, Chief of Wilileaks made a stark revelation in a recent interview with 'Russia Today', which is a global multilingual television news network that Facebook is a dreadful spying machine. Julian Assange always has been in controversies and now he is pulling in social networking sites to join the league. In the following interview he tagged Facebook as most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. According to Assange Facebook, Google, Yahoo has built-in interfaces for U.S. intelligence. Using this interface, Assanage said that U.S. intelligence is accessing data of any user. However, it does not mean that Facebook is run by U.S. intelligence. But it is possible for U.S. intelligence to bring on legal and political pressure on Facebook, Yahoo and Goggle to access their information. Moreover it is an expensive affair for them to hand out records one by one so the process has been automated for U.S. intelligence by these sites. He further added that this means that one is doing free work for United States intelligence when they add friends to their Facebook profile and help them in building their data base. Last year November Assange created huge controversy by releasing some of the 251,000 American diplomatic cables in their possession. Over 53 percent are listed as unclassified, 40 percent are Confidential and just over six percent are classified Secret. Wikileaks also showed how Indian government is being influenced by U.S. suggesting some MPs were bribed during a 2008 parliament trust vote for passing the nuclear deal. Wilikeaks was launched in 2006. It publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks.

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