Google battles landmark UK class action over alleged iPhone tracking | Malay Mail

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LONDON, April 28 — A proposed multi-billion pound British class action against Google, which alleges the internet giant secretly tracked millions of iPhone users, is not viable and should not be allowed to proceed, the Supreme Court was told today. Antony White, a lawyer for Google, told the...

Wednesday, 28 Apr 2021 11:47 PM MYT

“It is not my case that loss of personal data may not have serious consequences, but it may not always do so in a way that attracts compensation,” he said, adding that any uniform award would also fail to take into account differing phone usage. Lloyd, who says he wants to hold the world’s biggest companies to account, has estimated that people who used iPhones between 2011 and 2012 could be owned redress of more than 3 billion pounds if any future trial succeeds.

Experts say the case is “hugely significant” and urge businesses to be fair and transparent when harvesting and using troves of personal data for commercial gain.

 

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