Washington, March 9 (ANI): Julian Assange, the exiled WikiLeaks founder, while addressing an audience at SXSW via Skype reportedly said that his life in the Ecuadorian embassy in London was like a prison.
Speaking via Skype to a large audience at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, Assange said that the ability to surveil everyone on the planet is almost there and, arguably, will be there in the next couple of years.
Assange, who came into the limelight after Wikileaks started publishing undisclosed government documents online in 2010, said that his life in the embassy was like a prison, adding that actual inmates arguably had it worse.
The WikiLeaks founder said that the U.S. National Security Agency had become a "rogue agency" with too much power, even suggesting that President Barack Obama would be toppled politically if he attempted to disband the agency, the CNN reported.
Assange asserted that the agency would come up with all of this dirt on Obama, adding that Congress may impeach him and a criminal act would come to light. (ANI)
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