Waze as Panopticon

In the New Yorker.   Google subsidiary, social driving App Waze is sharing its data with Los Angeles.  Data driving and pattern improvement and intelligence.   How is this like Bentham's Panopticon?  What are the implications?

" ....  The L.A.-Waze partnership is, at least in theory, an initial step toward allowing the city’s planners and engineers to regain a healthier role in mediating the kinds of longstanding cross-town conflicts that Waze has renewed and amplified. Whether the deal will help to resolve fundamental long-term issues related to the city’s growth and inadequate infrastructure is another matter. It’s even still up for question whether improved data-sharing will improve conditions in the short run. .. " 

Continuous Surveillance: The Panopticon

In the news, Ars Technica writes about it.  Using aircraft or drones to continuously record activity in a city.  Shades of Bentham's Panopticon.  But recall that was mostly applied for how to run prisons.  This relates to using existing infrastructure for continuously capturing data.  We ran a experiment that asked: What if we had continuous, complete data in a given context?  What could we do with perfect information?  Which had surprising answers.