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TikTok is facing a potential legal claim in the U.K. brought by the former Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, on behalf of millions of children in the U.K. and EEA who have used the social media app. Claimants in the action could be entitled to over $1 billion pounds in damages.
This action follows fines issued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 2019 and the Korea Communications Commission in South Korea in 2020 for mishandling children’s data. TikTok has also previously been investigated by the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office, which ordered TikTok in 2019 to delete data associated with a linked app and set up an age verification system for that function.
Affected iPhone users could get £750 each if Google loses the case (Photo: Shutterstock)
Google could be forced to pay up to £3 billion in compensation to iPhone users following allegations it secretly tracked millions of users.
As many as four million iPhone users in England and Wales could be affected, who could be owed payouts of £750 each if the firm loses the cases.
Secretly collecting data?
The landmark case against the search engine went before judges at the Supreme Court this week, and centres on claims the firm secretly monitored the online activity of millions of iPhone users in England and Wales.
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iTWire Thursday, 29 April 2021 10:22 Google seeks dismissal of UK class action over alleged iPhone tracking
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More than three years after it was first filed, a multi-million-pound British class action against Google has begun, with a lawyer for the company claiming the action was not viable and should not proceed.
The
case alleges that Google secretly tracked millions of iPhone users and was first filed back in 2017, only to be
But the group that filed the case appealed against this verdict and
Reuters It is not my case that loss of personal data may not have serious consequences, but it may not always do so in a way that attracts compensation, he said.
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.”