Assange: US Annexed Whole World Through Spying

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The founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said the US and its spying allies have annexed the whole world through their spying activities across the globe, via teleconference on Wednesday.

In a keynote speech at the WHD.global conference on Wednesday, Assange spoke about the issue of data privacy and the threats posed to people's freedom in the use of Internet, as a result of spying activities carried out by the US and its spying allies worldwide.

He said that while the Western media has been overwhelmingly talking about Crimea's reintegration into Russia, they are all ignoring the fact that the ‘Five Eyes' club-an intelligence sharing alliance including the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand- have annexed the whole world through their spying.
"To a degree this is a matter of national sovereignty. The news is all flush with talk about how Russia has annexed the Crimea, but the reality is, the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, principally the United States, have annexed the whole world as a result of annexing the computer systems and communications technology that is used to run the modern world," Assange said.

"So it's a matter of national sovereignty. If there is not at least some national network that can be maintained in a moment of economic or political conflict with the United States, then there is simply too much leverage on nation states to be able to effectively defend the interests of their peoples," he added.

Additionally, he spoke about the documents leaked by former US intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, about the several spying activities carried out by the US and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ): "These revelations about the United States and GCHQ annexing our new world of the internet has produced market forces to do something about it," said Assange.
Assange connected live from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been living under asylum since 2012.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team