Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of 4.4m UK iPhone users' browsing data
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#3QPDX)
Collective action seeking up to 3.2bn for claims Google bypassed privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser
Google is being sued in the high court for as much as 3.2bn for the alleged "clandestine tracking and collation" of personal information from 4.4 million iPhone users in the UK.
The collective action is being led by former Which? director Richard Lloyd over claims Google bypassed the privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser on iPhones between August 2011 and February 2012 in order to divide people into categories for advertisers.
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