Erasing in the algorithmic extreme: Mimi Cabell and Jason Huff’s 'American Psycho'

In 2012 Google faced a privacy lawsuit over accessing users’ data and disclosing it to advertisers without permission. The accusations of breach of contract and fraud presented Google’s practices as illegal wiretapping. [1] The claims followed a change in policy Google introduced on March 1, 2012, and were filed as a national class action. Before March 2012, individual privacy policies existed for each of Google’s products. [2] But the new policy treats each of Google’s users as a single entity, across all services, as a result giving the company the right to combine information from multiple sources.