The search engine, for better or for worse

James Rule writes for The New York Times, March 18, 2013

As recent court decisions in the United States and Europe have shown, ordinary citizens have reason to be uncomfortable with Google’s version of “the mind of God” monitoring their whereabouts and Wi-Fi use. Worse, all around the world we now see the powers of the Internet mobilized as weapons in some especially nasty struggles: cyberwarfare, hacking and political repression.