Swarna Shukla –
Published On: November 10, 2021 at 19:53 IST
The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court blocked a 3.2 billion pound ($4.3 billion) British class action against Google over allegations that Google unlawfully tracked the personal information of millions of iPhone users.
It was a move that upset a string of similar claims waiting in the wings against other companies along with Facebook and TikTok.
The Judges unanimously granted a Google Appeal against the country’s first data privacy case. The landmark case brought by Richard Llyod, a Consumer Rights Activist, sought to extend Britain’s class action regime to include compensation claims for the misuse of data.
Google stated that the claims are related to events that took place long years back. Llyod claims that Google secretly took more than 5 million Apple iPhone users’ data between 2011 and 2012 and bypassed default privacy settings on the Safari browser to track browsing history.
Llyod further argued that Google used these tactics to sell a targeted advertising service, that the company earned $80 billion from advertising alone in 2016.
A Google spokesperson stated, ” People want to know that they are safe and secure online, which is why for years we’ve focused on buildings products and infrastructure that respect and protect people’s privacy.”
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