{"id":10381,"date":"2014-03-15T05:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T09:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=10381"},"modified":"2014-03-15T05:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T09:43:06","slug":"wikipedia-facebook-slam-nsa-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/nsa-spying\/wikipedia-facebook-slam-nsa-spying.php","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia, Facebook slam NSA spying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published: Friday, 14 Mar 2014 | 9:39 AM ET <\/p>\n

By: CNBC.com with Reuters <\/p>\n

NSA spying shows government 'out of control': Wikipedia <\/p>\n

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, says the revelations of spying by the U.S. National Security Agency is a \"huge scandal\" and the government is \"out of control\". <\/p>\n

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales slammed the U.S. government over its electronic surveillance methods, branding them \"out of control\", after reports that Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg had called President Barack Obama to express his concerns. <\/p>\n

Wales said he was \"glad\" that Zuckerberg was putting pressure on the Obama administration to stop its \"unconstitutional\" spying techniques. <\/p>\n

\"The governmentshould be here to empower us and to protect our rightsbut in fact, the recent revelations have shown a government that's completely out of control, lying to Congress, doing things that are blatantly unconstitutional,\" Wales told CNBC in a TV interview. <\/p>\n

\"I think it's a huge scandal.\" <\/p>\n

(Read more: Facebook's Zuckerberg says US spying hurt users' trust) <\/p>\n

Noah Berger | Bloomberg | Getty Images <\/p>\n

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