The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

A 2012 investigation by the Federal Communications Commission described the case as “a deliberate software-design decision by one of the Google employees working on the Street View project.”44 The engineer had been selected for the team because of his unique expertise in Wi-Fi “wardriving,” the practice of driving around using equipment to locate wireless networks.45 His design notes indicated that user traffic and location data would be logged along with “information about what they are doing” that would “be analyzed offline for use in other initiatives.” The notes identified but then dismissed “privacy considerations.”46