iPhone users say Google accessed their data, and court agrees
02 October 2019 - 16:27
London — London’s court of appeal gave the go-ahead for action against Google over claims that it collected data from more than 4-million iPhone users, overturning a ruling in 2018 that, in effect, blocked any route to legal redress.
The claimants said Google, a unit of Alphabet, had illegally accessed details of Apple iPhone users’ internet browsing data by bypassing privacy settings on the Safari browser between June 2011 and February 2012...
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