Google: The World’s Favorite Panopticon, From Lagos to La Paz
Google: The Planet’s Favorite Panopticon by D. Lockhart, filed from 37,000 feet above the Sea of Okhotsk Somewhere over Siberia, I watched a Russian oligarch two rows ahead frantically clear his search history before the flight attendant confiscated his phone for “landing safety.” He needn’t have bothered. Google already has his dacha’s floor plan, his…