GOOGLE: A PRIVITISED NSA....Assang!

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has accused Google of behaving like a "privatised version of the NSA" in the way it collects and stores information about people.

He told Sky News the internet giant was not doing anything illegal but its behaviour was highly questionable.

"It is not doing things which are illegal, what it is doing is legal," he said.

"It is collecting as much information about people as possible, storing it, indexing it, and using it to create profiles of people and then selling that to advertisers and others.

"Those are the same procedures that security agencies go through. That is why the NSA has latched on top of what Google is doing.

"Since 2009 the NSA had been engaged in the Prism system where information collected online is available to it."

Mr Assange also told Sky News he thinks he will eventually leave the Ecuadorian embassy in central London with his asylum status intact.

The 43-year-old Australian took refuge there over two years ago after being accused of sex offences in Sweden, which he denies.

He faces arrest and extradition to Sweden if he leaves the building.