Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in an interview with Russia Today, though
waiting extradition to Sweden for alleged sexual assault charges, spoke of Facebook as being “the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented”.
Considering last week’s posts, he may well be onto something.
We already know that the USA PATRIOT Act can be used, without necessarily the need of a court order or search warrant, to access the data held by a U.S. company in a datacenter or on a university campus. However,
this can also apply to non-US datacenters and offices which are wholly owned and operated by U.S. organisations.
Arguably, a sceptic may simply pass off Assange’s assertions as the ramblings of a paranoid delusionist. On the other hand, and take my word on this, though I don’t necessarily agree nor can confirm all of his suspicions, there is sufficient evidence to at least support many of his claims.
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