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Google Sued By 4.4 Million Iphone Users For Secretly Collecting Data by sunnyh: 9:02pm On May 23, 2018 |
iPhone users in the UK have sued Google in the High Court for as much as £3.2 billion pounds ($4.29 billion) for the alleged “clandestine tracking and collation” of personal information of 4.4 million users. The secret collection of data was discovered by a Ph.D. researcher in 2012, who termed it as “Safari Workaround”. The lawsuit claims that Google had bypassed privacy settings of Safari browser on Apple iPhone devices between August 2011 and February 2012. The campaign group representing iPhone users – Google You Owe Us – which is being led by Richard Lloyd, a former Executive Director of the consumer watchdog publication Which? According to The Guardian, the information collected by Google included....continue reading |
Re: Google Sued By 4.4 Million Iphone Users For Secretly Collecting Data by Nobody: 6:35am On May 24, 2018 |
It couldn't have come at the right time with GDPR looming, bet Google will find a way around it, anyways! ![]() Read more about GDPR here: https://www.questechie.com/2018/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-gdpr.html |
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