When Google Met WikiLeaks

01 November, 2014

Julian Assange

Navayana,

224 pages, Rs. 295

In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt. For several hours the besieged leader of the world’s most famous insurgent publishing organisation and the billionaire head of the world’s largest information empire locked horns. For Assange, the liberating power of the internet is based on its freedom and statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation means connecting non-Western countries to American companies and markets. When Google Met WikiLeaks presents the story of the Assange–Schmidt encounter.