WikiLeaks founder says social media operate as tools for U.S. intelligence

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called Facebook the “most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented.”

Assange pointed out that a trove of information about people, their relationships, conversations and locations exists on the social media and that U.S. intelligence agencies could bring pressure on Facebook, Yahoo, Google and others to extract that information. -db

From NextWeb, May 2, 2011, by Matt Brian.

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