“Lloyd v Google is one of the most important data privacy and collective redress disputes to date. The claim was based on breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998). Google illegally tracked the web browsing activity of millions of individuals and used the collected data for targeted advertising. Given how widespread such online tracking practices are these days, the Supreme Court’s unanimous judgment ([2021] UKSC 50; [2021] 3 WLR 1268) provides a much-needed clarification of the law …”
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Václav Janeček, ‘Mass compensation claims for illegal online tracking’ (2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review (April issue) 205.
First posted 2022-03-02 09:00:47
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