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Title: Safari users in the UK can sue Google over alleged privacy violations Post by: HCK on March 28, 2015, 03:00:10 am Safari users in the UK can sue Google over alleged privacy violations
<article> <section class="page"> <p>The U.K. Court of Appeal won’t block a privacy lawsuit that alleges Google tracked Safari users without authorization, so the three plaintiffs can continue their legal fight against the search company.</p><p>“These claims raise serious issues which merit a trial. They concern what is alleged to have been the secret and blanket tracking and collation of information, often of an extremely private nature, as specified in the confidential schedules, about and associated with the claimants’ internet use, and the subsequent use of that information for about nine months,” reads the decision (http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2015/311.html), released Friday. “The case relates to the anxiety and distress this intrusion upon autonomy has caused.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2903192/safari-users-in-the-uk-can-sue-google-over-alleged-privacy-violations.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Safari users in the UK can sue Google over alleged privacy violations (http://www.macworld.com/article/2903192/safari-users-in-the-uk-can-sue-google-over-alleged-privacy-violations.html#tk.rss_all) |