Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has leved an accusation that Facebook is "the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented."
Assange said he believes Facebook is a giant database of names and records about people, maintained voluntarily by its users but developed for U.S. intelligence to use.
“Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies, and building this database for them,” Assange said.
While Assange doesn’t claim that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence agencies, the fact that they have access to its records is — in his view — dangerous enough.
“Now, is the case that Facebook is run by U.S. intelligence? No, it’s not like that. It’s simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure to them,” he said.
that means they wont' need to look in the phone book to find it!
I'm not as worried about f/b misusing my personal stuff as I am about Assange...
your silly names are already in the phone book, but not all your friends, thoughts, contacts and everything you click on facebook.
Facebook performs behavioral assessment, a dangerous profiling that can BE USED AGAINST YOU, by the evil CIA.
THE MORE THEY KNOW ABOUT YOU - LESS FREEDOM FOR YOU
and MORE CHANCES TO END UP INNOCENT IN GUANTANAMO
finally decided to take the $25,000,000.00 !!!
How do you get people to voluntarily divulge their most personal information to a profiteer's database? Employ their vanity and ego.
Seems like you would at least share in the profits.
Foolish.