WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange: Facebook an ‘appalling spying machine’
维基解密'朱利安阿桑格：Facebook的一个'令人震惊的间谍机器
Facebook is “the most appalling spying machine ever invented,” according WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who recently spoke with Russia Today, while awaiting extradition from England to Sweden on sexual assault charges.
“Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other, and their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US Intelligence,” said Assange during the interview.
Assange asserts that Google, Yahoo and other US-based technology companies are also complicit in the US government’s aims to keep watch over the world’s citizens.
“Facebook, Google, Yahoo, all these major US organizations have built-in infaces for US intelligence,” he said. “It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena, they have an interface they have developed for US Intelligence to use. Now, is the case that Facebook is 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 to them. It’s costly for them to hand out individual records, one by one, so they have automated the process.”
Assange goes on to say that anytime anyone adds information to their Facebook profile they “are doing free work for US intelligence agencies.”
The WikiLeaks founders’ proclamations of tech giants’ Big Brother operations follows recent revelations that Apple, Microsoft and Google collect location-related information about customers who use devices that run their iOS, Windows Phone 7 and Android mobile operating systems.
Revelations about so-called Location-gate sparked outrage (and a lawsuit) among customers, who were appalled that their mobile devices were used to keep track of their approximate movements. The uproar caused Apple CEO Steve Jobs to respond to the criticism, saying that “Apple is not tracking your iPhone.” Instead, “Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years,” according to statement posted on the company’s website.
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Despite awaiting extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still the subject of much media interest.
儘管為性侵犯指控在等待被引渡到瑞典，維基解密的創始人朱利安阿桑傑仍是許多媒體的主體興趣。
Russia Today (RT) interviewed Assange, getting his viewpoint on political unrest in Egypt and Libya, particularly probing what the Wikileaks founder makes of social media’s roles in the recent revolutions in both countries.
In his interview, Assange focuses particularly on Facebook calling it the “most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented”.
在它的訪問中，阿桑傑特別地聚焦在臉譜，稱它為“歷來發明中最可怕的間諜機器“。
Explaining in more detail, Assange affirms:
解釋得更詳細，阿桑格申明：
Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other, and their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US Intelligence.”
在這我們有世界上有關人們最全面的數據庫，他們的關係、他們的名字、他們的地址、他們的位置、他們與其他人的通信，和他們的親戚，全都坐在在美國內，對美國情報部門是全都可接近。“
According to Assange, it doesn’t stop with Facebook. He believes the social network is joined by Google, Yahoo and other major US organisations that have “built in interfaces for US Intelligence”:
據阿桑傑，它不會停於臉譜。他相信社會網絡是加入了谷歌、雅虎等有“內置界面給美國情報組織“的其它美國主要組織：
It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena, they have an interface they have developed for US Intelligence to use. Now, is the case that Facebook is 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 to them
It’s costly for them to hand out individual records, one by one, so they have automated the process..
The Wikileaks founder then warns Facebook users, stating that if a user adds their friend to Facebook, they are “doing free work for US Intelligence agencies, in building this electronic database for them”.
維基解密的創始人隨後警告Facebook用戶，申明如果一個用戶添加他們的朋友到Facebook，他們在“為美國情報機構做免費工作，為他們建設這電子數據庫“。
The full video has been embedded below, Assange’s thoughts on Facebook, Google and Yahoo begin around the two minute mark:
完整的影片已在下面嵌入，阿桑格對臉譜、谷歌和雅虎的想法，開始在兩分鐘左右的標誌：
WikiLeaks' Julian assange: Facebook is CIA spying machine
維基解密'朱利安阿桑傑：臉譜是美國中央情報局的間諜機器
2011-5-02
【视频 直接点击参考如下：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iyEVq4uH5c&feature=player_embedded
【中文资讯：
5月5日消息，据国外媒体报道，因公布美国各种机密文件而声名大噪的维基泄密创办人朱利安·阿桑奇近日接受专访时语出惊人地表示，包括Facebook，谷歌及雅虎等科技公司都内置了供美国情报机关获取数据的界面，而Facebook，更可堪称是有史以来最可怕的间谍机器。
根据阿桑奇的说法，Facebook，谷歌与雅虎等主要美国网络科技公司都为美国情报机关设计界面，是专为美国情报机关开发的界面。其中，Facebook堪称为史上最可怕的间谍机器，因为它拥有全球最完善的资料库，包括个人基本资料，或是与亲友间的连结，相互的关系等，这些资料全部储存于美国，而且可供美国情报机关获取数据。
阿桑奇表示，这是因为美国情报机关利用法律与政治方式向这些公司施压，但逐次提供资料的成本太高，因此这些公司干脆自动化相关程序。阿桑奇提醒Facebook用户，当他们新增朋友到Facebook上时，应该要了解他们其实正在替美国情报机关免费工作，协助其打造资料库。
关于Facebook的争议其实由来已久，因为用户注册Facebook后，Facebook方面能够自动登录该用户的电邮帐户以取得其通信录(即用户联络人的电邮地址)，这样就能告知用户哪些朋友有使用Facebook。但是，Facebook会用这些密码来做什么，则没人知晓。这就使一些人产生疑虑。
2009年7月份，加拿大隐私委员会曾称Facebook违反了隐私法，给予30天时间责令改正。10月份，Facebook改变了隐私权条款。但是隐私担忧却是与日俱增。
另外，2010年，中国社会科学院在京发布的《中国新媒体发展报告(2010)》指出，社交网站的病毒式营销手段、泄露个人隐私以及政治、军事、商业机密信息等问题也引发质疑，Facebook等社交网站被西方国家情报机构所利用，其特殊的政治功能则让人心生恐惧。