Assange blasts Facebook as most appalling spying machine

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called Facebook, it the "most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented," Fox News reported, citing his interview with Russia today.

"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," he was quoted as saying. "Facebook, Google, Yahoo - all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for U.S. intelligence."

Assange added: "It's not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use."
He also claimed that people using Facebook were helping US intelligence operatives.

"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," he said.