Report on Supply Chain Compliance, Volume 2, no. 19 (October 10, 2019)
A case involving the “Safari Workaround”[1] has made its way through the U.K. courts over the past 18 months and has recently been allowed to proceed. The U.K. Court of Appeal ruled that the representative action brought by Richard Lloyd against Google for unlawfully collecting data from iPhone users may proceed, after it was rejected last October.[2]
The case involved as many as 5 million claimants and could result in a fine of between GBP 1 to 3 billion. Google has 28 days to appeal the ruling before the Supreme Court. A representative action is not the same as a U.S.-style class action suit, but the ruling will likely lead to an increase of litigation over data protection violations, including security breaches.
“There are likely to be additional significant developments in group actions in data protection cases soon,” wrote analysts with Cordery.[3]
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