Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebranded as 'social media'
The Stasi and KGB would have given everything to have something like Facebook. Here they were installing listening devices, torturing people, following them, getting family members to spy on each other. They just needed Facebook and none of that would have been necessary. People would voluntarily log in and type everything they do, where they travel, what food they are eating, what political parties they support, who their friends are, everything connected nicely in a pretty graph with nodes and edges.<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_Zuckerberg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_Zuckerberg</a><p>Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend&#x27;s Name]: What? How&#x27;d you manage that one?<p>Zuck: People just submitted it.<p>Zuck: I don&#x27;t know why.<p>Zuck: They &quot;trust me&quot;<p>Zuck: Dumb fucks