WikiLeaks : Facebook the most appalling spying machine

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... Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. 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....


WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg – Assange
http://rt.com/news/wikileaks-revelations-assange-interview/
 
Sounds like this guy has a massive axe to grind... and that betrays his bias. Everything he therefore says is to be taken with a huge amount of salt.
He has gone from "releasing information obtained in leaks" to just making stuff up as he goes along.
 
Where is the proof of that Mr Assange? No more leaks now making up stuff?
 
Id numbers, birth certs, marriage certificates, RICA, FICA, cellphone contracts, driver license, registering for a home loan, edgars account, credit cards, medical aid etc etc...

There is so much information out there about you, in the private sector and government, that facebook is the least of your concerns because you're not required to enter info.

But I guess the Governments are more interested in your relationship status right?

OMG! Defcon 2; Jack Smith just broke up with Susan!
 
Put this into the perspective that millions are doing the dirty work for you and now you have a database with backups and everything (relationships can be filtered no?). Does this mean Mr Assange is on the brink to going into the looney room :D.

eltherza said:
Id numbers, birth certs, marriage certificates, RICA, FICA, cellphone contracts, driver license, registering for a home loan, edgars account, credit cards, medical aid etc etc...

There is so much information out there about you, in the private sector and government, that facebook is the least of your concerns because you're not required to enter info.

But I guess the Governments are more interested in your relationship status right?

OMG! Defcon 2; Jack Smith just broke up with Susan!
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Garyvdh said:
Sounds like this guy has a massive axe to grind... and that betrays his bias. Everything he therefore says is to be taken with a huge amount of salt.
He has gone from "releasing information obtained in leaks" to just making stuff up as he goes along.
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His pathological quest for fame and attention will be his undoing.
 
Yuu said:
Put this into the perspective that millions are doing the dirty work for you and now you have a database with backups and everything
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Discovery, Pnp (smart shopper), clicks, my bank... they are all already doing that; have been for years and they are getting better at it - only difference is that for them I can't choose not to provide them with info about me.
 
Governments can spy on me all they want, in fact I'll even let the FBI set up a CCTV right in my living room I don't mind, my life really isn't that interesting, I come home, shower, make dinner, take an occasional sh$t and either end up playing Counterstrike or watching a DVD and fall asleep on the couch after I get tired of trolling mybb. I really am boring :(
 
^ Damn you are boring.

I'd prefer not to be tracked or have cameras in my room.
I come home after going to the warehouse looking for items to make my homemade bomb, afterwards I look at my neighbors dog for 3 hours jealously then retreat to my bed to watch horse porn before falling asleep.
 
Its all good, we slowly letting go of all the freedom, till one day when people wake up in a police state world and wonder where it went wrong.

Like slowly cooking a frog, that does not jump out till its to late.

Good thing I can still remember the times as a kid when I played with hth bombs in the field, or stole fruit from the neighbours yard. I can remember the night I got so drunk I passed out on the steps of a library. My boss can never judge me on that and the other things I did when I was young, because its not recorded anywhere but in my mind. Who knows in the future with all the tracking kids wont have that fun anymore.

I know of companies internationally that request access to your Facebook pages at interviews. When will it stop being a request and the data is simply supplied.
 
I must admit, whenever I read a local story about someone I/one of my friend's might know I always search for the name on Facebook. Guess in that context it could be viewed as spying (certainly if the person has a open profile).
 
Nothxkbi said:
Governments can spy on me all they want, in fact I'll even let the FBI set up a CCTV right in my living room I don't mind, my life really isn't that interesting, I come home, shower, make dinner, take an occasional sh$t and either end up playing Counterstrike or watching a DVD and fall asleep on the couch after I get tired of trolling mybb. I really am boring :(
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OMG :eek: people still play CS ?








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Heh, whoever thought that the information they put on the Internet is private.... well, I have a bridge for sale! :D

I put my name into Google once, and it found mailing lists posts that I had made 10 years ago, in some archive.

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My Telkom phonebook is a more comprehensive spying machine, in it are names, real phone numbers and address information! We should get hysterical about that rather. I dont support Assange on this.
 
eltherza said:
Id numbers, birth certs, marriage certificates, RICA, FICA, cellphone contracts, driver license, registering for a home loan, edgars account, credit cards, medical aid etc etc...

There is so much information out there about you, in the private sector and government, that facebook is the least of your concerns because you're not required to enter info.
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Recently, I did a google on my name. A few years ago a sign that you had ‘made it’ was having a personal profile vomited-up by a google search on your name. I didn’t have one because I consciously tried to fly under the radar when it wasn’t fashionable and everyone wanted to be on google. A search on my name at the time returned nothing. Some years ago I was involved in stuff which was reported in the newspapers (I have no control over this). A google now returns those clippings. They have started to integrate newspaper archives. Military records, criminal records, psychological profiles, fingerprints and whatnot will be next.

A touching faith in ‘legality’ doesn’t help. Applying ‘legal confidentiality’ clauses to lawyers, doctors and reporters is Hollywood crap (like cops commandeering cars and then totalling them). It doesn’t work in real life. What about whistleblowers? At least WikiLeak’s is performing a service. I don’t see any rationale for other invasions of privacy. Bear in mind that it was an American, sickened by American double-standards, who released information to WikiLeaks hoping that it would be ‘splashed throughout cyberspace’. That’s what WikiLeaks does. It is their duty. That’s the sole reason for its existence. To accept material from whistleblowers and ‘splash it throughout cyberspace’. If it didn’t do this it would go out of business. So Julian Assange and his ilk have every right (nay duty) to splash it throughout cyberspace. They have to; otherwise they wouldn’t be doing their job.

Silly Assange, he should have known he’s ‘legally’ protected and that big, bad America couldn’t do anything without falling foul of the law.

RIP privacy.
 
Palimino said:
Recently, I did a google on my name. A few years ago a sign that you had ‘made it’ was having a personal profile vomited-up by a google search on your name. I didn’t have one because I consciously tried to fly under the radar when it wasn’t fashionable and everyone wanted to be on google. A search on my name at the time returned nothing. Some years ago I was involved in stuff which was reported in the newspapers (I have no control over this). A google now returns those clippings. They have started to integrate newspaper archives. Military records, criminal records, psychological profiles, fingerprints and whatnot will be next.

A touching faith in ‘legality’ doesn’t help. Applying ‘legal confidentiality’ clauses to lawyers, doctors and reporters is Hollywood crap (like cops commandeering cars and then totalling them). It doesn’t work in real life. What about whistleblowers? At least WikiLeak’s is performing a service. I don’t see any rationale for other invasions of privacy. Bear in mind that it was an American, sickened by American double-standards, who released information to WikiLeaks hoping that it would be ‘splashed throughout cyberspace’. That’s what WikiLeaks does. It is their duty. That’s the sole reason for its existence. To accept material from whistleblowers and ‘splash it throughout cyberspace’. If it didn’t do this it would go out of business. So Julian Assange and his ilk have every right (nay duty) to splash it throughout cyberspace. They have to; otherwise they wouldn’t be doing their job.

Silly Assange, he should have known he’s ‘legally’ protected and that big, bad America couldn’t do anything without falling foul of the law.

RIP privacy.
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So where's the proof that Facebook is spying for the US government? :confused:
Or is it proof enough just because mr. AssAngel said it?
 
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