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Gareth Corfield Fri 30 Apr 2021 // 15:55 UTC Share
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A barrister for the Information Commissioner s Office hinted the regulator would stop enforcing the law on data breaches if the Supreme Court sides with Google in a case about class-action lawsuits.
The startling threat was made on behalf of the ICO by barrister Gerry Facenna QC, who was intervening on the authority s behalf in the Lloyd v Google data protection case. If a large number of data subjects have had their data lost, then they have
per se suffered damage: harm of the type that I described, namely loss of control of their data, Facenna told judges in the UK s highest court. That is the commissioner s view of these provisions, that s the basis on which she takes regulatory action at the moment. If the word damage in this regime does not include mere loss of control, it would have to be t
Lloyd v Google was brought by three claimants (
Judith Vidal-Hall et al v Google Inc) who went through the UK court system to claim their privacy rights had been breached by the Safari Workaround . The Court of Appeal of England and Wales ruled at the time that users could sue Google in the UK.
Antony White QC for Google told the court yesterday: “In our submission it is an important point of reference in this case that under the general law, a claim in tort of breach of statutory duty is not actionable per se; it requires proof of harm.”