Google Sued Over Privacy on Behalf of 5 Million iPhone Users
- Group says affected consumers could get hundreds of pounds
- Google will contest case, says it isn’t new and has no merit
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Google was sued by a group of U.K. consumers over claims that the company improperly collected personal data from millions of users of Apple Inc.’s iPhone.
The group, called Google You Owe Us, said in a statement Thursday that it was the first case of its kind in the U.K. against a major tech company over the alleged misuse of personal data. It says the Alphabet Inc. unit unlawfully collected people’s personal information by bypassing the iPhone’s default privacy settings.