A class-action lawsuit against Google for allegedly tracking the personal data of 4m iPhone users can proceed in the UK courts, three judges ruled on Wednesday. The Court of Appeal said Richard Lloyd, a former director of the consumer rights group Which?, could press ahead with a civil case against Google under the UK 1998 Data Protection Act and serve legal papers on Google in the US. Mr Lloyd claims that Google secretly tracked the online behaviour of iPhone users in the UK between 2011 and 2012, bypassing the privacy settings on the handsets and collecting data from the Safari browser on the race, ethnicity, health, sexuality and finances of users. Read More...
A class-action lawsuit against Google for allegedly tracking the personal data of 4m iPhone users can proceed in the UK courts, three judges ruled on Wednesday. The Court of Appeal said Richard Lloyd, a former director of the consumer rights group Which?, could press ahead with a civil case against Google under the UK 1998 Data Protection Act and serve legal papers on Google in the US. Mr Lloyd claims that Google secretly tracked the online behaviour of iPhone users in the UK between 2011 and 2012, bypassing the privacy settings on the handsets and collecting data from the Safari browser on the race, ethnicity, health, sexuality and finances of users.
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