- UK Approves Apple Users Massive Privacy Lawsuit Against Google Over iPhone Data
- UK Allows Lawsuit Against Google Over iPhone Data
Google faces a lawsuit that surfaced last year, where Apple users sued Google over collecting data on them. It obviously shows that they're filing Google £3.2 billion ($4.29 billion) for damages.
Over 4 million collective Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL 219.13 -2.43%) iPhone users were going after Google with a class-action lawsuit stemming from unagreed-upon data collection. Nevertheless, only months later a U.K. circuit court ruled that Google (NASDAQ;GOOGL) wasn’t liable as the claimants suffered no damages.
Google now facing a reversal of opinion in Britain’s courts. Now nearly a year later a London appeals judge has overturned that ruling and effectively giving the group the “green light” to continue on with seeking damages from Google parent Alphabet Inc. Part of Judge Geoffrey Vos statement here:
Google now facing a reversal of opinion in Britain’s courts. Now nearly a year later a London appeals judge has overturned that ruling and effectively giving the group the “green light” to continue on with seeking damages from Google parent Alphabet Inc. Part of Judge Geoffrey Vos statement here:
This case, quite properly if the allegations are proved, seeks to call Google to account for its allegedly wholesale and deliberate misuse of personal data without consent, undertaken with a view to a commercial profit.
The group is calling itself (GYOU) which means “Google You Owe Us” GYOU has over 4 million affected iPhone users counted so far.
