Data Privacy Fines and Damages “Double Jeopardy”: UK Supreme Court Hears Google “Class Action”

his week sees a key hearing before the UK Supreme Court in the case of Lloyd v Google, an event long awaited by those familiar with data protection law proceedings in Europe. The case concerns the so-called “safari workaround,” which placed cookies on the devices of millions of iPhone users between 2011 and 2012 without obtaining the necessary consent of the relevant users......
By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

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