UK High Court Blocks £1B Class Action against Google, by iPhone users

Ink

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The UK High Court has blocked a £1B ($1.3B) class action claim filed against Google on behalf of iPhone users. The lawsuit resulted from the so-called ‘Safari bypass,’ where Google continued to install cookies on iPhones despite this being blocked in the browser settings …
The Safari bypass was discovered in 2012.

A British campaign group decided that wasn’t good enough, and launched a ‘representative action’ (the UK term for a class action suit) on behalf of the 5.4M iPhone users in England and Wales affected by the Safari workaround. The group originally said the claim could be worth as much as £2.7B ($3.5B), though later reduced the sum to £1B.

The Guardian reports that the group argued Google had illicitly collected sensitive information about users.
 

LDogg

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This would severely impacted Google's revenue. Was there even a bypass?

~LDogg
 

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