{"id":8337,"date":"2011-05-04T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8337"},"modified":"2011-05-04T09:14:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:14:21","slug":"wikileaks-founder-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/wikileaks-founder-facebook","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Founder Blasts Facebook as &#8220;appalling spying machine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was asked about the role of social networks such as Facebook, he erupted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Facebook, in particular, is the most appalling spying machine that has  ever been invented. Here we have the world\u2019s most comprehensive database  about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their  locations, their communications with each other, their relatives, all  sitting within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence.  Facebook, Google, Yahoo \u2013 all these major US organizations have built-in  interfaces for US intelligence. It\u2019s not a matter of serving a subpoena  \u2013 they have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence  to use.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Wikileaks founder warns Facebook users, stating that if a user  adds their friend to Facebook, they are &#8220;doing free work for US  Intelligence agencies, in building this electronic database for them&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was asked about the role of social networks such as Facebook, he erupted: &#8220;Facebook, in particular, is the most appalling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-8337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}