On October 2, 2019, the UK Court of Appeal unanimously overturned a block on a “class-action” lawsuit (technically a “collective action”) brought by a veteran on behalf of millions iPhone users against Google for the latter’s use of “Safari Workaround” . Now the case can be heard. The lawsuit alleges that Google secretly tracked some […]
On October 10, 2018, UK High Court blocked the class-action against Google over unlawful iPhone tracking allegations. The claimant, Richard Lloyd, alleged that, during 2011 and 2012, Google secretly tracked the internet activity of Apple iPhone users and then sold the data. The method by which Google was able to do this is generally referred […]
On July 28, 2015, the UK Supreme Court granted permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision in Vidal-Hall -v- Google. In March 2015, the Court of Appeal gave the leeway for UK data subjects to sue Google in England for cookies violations even if there was no pecuniary loss. More information on the ‘Safari Workaround’ […]
On March 27, 2015, the Court of Appeal issued its final judgment on ‘Safari workaround’: it dismissed Google’s appeal and gave the leeway for UK data subjects to sue Google in England for cookies violations. At the beginning of 2013 several claimants alleged that Google used cookies to track their browsing activity “Browser Generated Information” without […]