Street View's redirection and elaboration announced a critical shift in the orientation and ambition of the surveillance program: it would no longer be only about routes, but about routing. We will examine this new episode of dispossession in the chapters that follow. For now, suffice to say that Street View and the larger project of Google Maps illustrate the new and even more ambitious goals toward which this cycle of dispossession would soon point: the migration from an online data source to a real-world monitor to an advisor to an active shepherd—from knowledge to influence to control.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 480