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The Supreme Court handed down a judgment in what has been described as one of the most significant cases in recent legal history: Lloyd v Google.
Richard Lloyd sued Google for collecting web browsing data from iPhone users between 2011 and 2012, despite the American technology giant claiming at the time that it was prevented from doing so by the Safari browser’s default privacy settings.
He brought the claim not just as an individual affected by Google’s actions, but as someone who is representing over four million people in a ground-breaking representative action. Mr Lloyd winning the case means the US technology giant will be forced to forfeit billions to compensate affected iPhone users.
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