O Facebook is going through what is already considered one of the biggest security holes in its history and Edward Snowden says that the social network is a surveillance company.
Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency (NSA) analyst who made public details about the US government's surveillance systems on citizens, said on Twitter that Facebook gets its revenues from exploring and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions of users, far beyond the scarce details that people voluntarily publish.
Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices. https://t.co/mRkRKxsBcw
- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 17, 2018
Although Facebook acknowledged the breach of security, Edward Snowden says the social network makes money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives that were formerly described as surveillance companies. Its reinvention as social media is the most successful deception since the War Department changed its name to Department of Defense.
Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." Their rebranding as "social media" is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.
- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 17, 2018
When Facebook opened the market in 2010, Mark Zuckerberg triumphantly announced: “By giving people the power to share, we offer the opportunity to make everyone's voices heard on an amazing scale. These voices will grow in number and volume. They cannot be ignored. ”
Snowden has republished tweets that accuse Facebook of only recognizing the security breach when it learned that the press would be about to report it, having kept it secret since 2015.
