WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been scathing in his attack on Google in a keynote address at Sydney University. Streaming live from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London an eerily calm Assange left the crowd of media and delegates at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts Conference with no doubt he thought Google was acting as a "mole" for the US government.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been scathing in his attack on Google in a keynote address at Sydney University. Streaming live from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London an eerily calm Assange left the crowd of media and delegates at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts Conference with no doubt he thought Google was acting as a "mole" for the US government.
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Assange described a five-hour meeting he had with Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and his girlfriend, Lisa Shields, media manager for the US council of foreign relations, in June 2011.
He alleges that Schmidt and Shields attended the meeting under the pretence of researching a book on WikiLeaks called "The New Digital Age", to be published by Google ideas man Jared Cohen, a former advisor to Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. But that instead they used the opportunity to feed information back once again to the government.
Assange said the meeting might have looked to people like Google was secretly on his side but that the organization "has a much more complex agenda" than that. "Google's goal isn't to offer books, but instead to project itself into the Washington old estate: The Kissingers, the Blairs, the Clintons and the CIA," said Assange. "It wants showing Washington that Google could be America's geopolitical visionary."
These chilling words came as it was revealed this week that the US government has allegedly been spying on internet users by utilizing tech companies, such as for example Facebook, Google and Skype, to offer this content of user communications without the utilization of a warrant.
He alleges that Schmidt and Shields attended the meeting under the pretence of researching a book on WikiLeaks called "The New Digital Age", to be published by Google ideas man Jared Cohen, a former advisor to Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. But that instead they used the opportunity to feed information back once again to the government.
Assange said the meeting might have looked to people like Google was secretly on his side but that the organization "has a much more complex agenda" than that. "Google's goal isn't to offer books, but instead to project itself into the Washington old estate: The Kissingers, the Blairs, the Clintons and the CIA," said Assange. "It wants showing Washington that Google could be America's geopolitical visionary."
These chilling words came as it was revealed this week that the US government has allegedly been spying on internet users by utilizing tech companies, such as for example Facebook, Google and Skype, to offer this content of user communications without the utilization of a warrant.
Assange went on to say that his WikiLeaks party would work to make Australia’s intelligence agencies more transparent because unlike the CIA, ASIO is not subject to Freedom of Information requests
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