[martius]

Source for this?

There is a well known tool named Panopticon (abbreviated pcon) internally and this is not at all what you describe.

(I work at Google)

[williamDafoe]

I was in the chrome dogfooding program at Google, testing pre release hardware and I used panopticon. They locked it down a short while later. I could see all the acer Chromebooks in the wild before the lockdown. I imagine they renamed it and/or came up with a new tool named panopticon since it's a common term for a special type of prison where from one location you can observe every prisoner at once.

[jle17]

> it's a common term for a special type of prison where from one location you can observe every prisoner at once.

Which is kinda unsettling. At least it makes it clear how they view their users.