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Google Loses Ruling In Safari Tracking Case

Posted by Soulskill on from the permission-for-lawyers-to-make-money dept.

mpicpp sends this report from CNET: The floodgates are now open for UK users to sue Google over privacy violations tied to tracking cookies. In a landmark ruling, the UK's Court of Appeal has dismissed Google's request to prevent British Web users from suing the company over tracking cookies and privacy violations. The decision was announced Friday, according to the BBC. In spite of default privacy settings and user preferences — including an opt-out of consent to be tracked by cookies — Google's tracking cookies gathered information on Safari browser users for nine months in 2011 and 2012.

2 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. There is no need to prove "further" damage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Privacy law are quite stronger in EU. The fact that the privacy was breached *IS* the damage. there is no need to prove damage beyond the breach.

  2. Re:Wrong target by _merlin · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, you're describing the "do not track" header, and that's not what this is about. This is about circumventing the "accept 3rd-party cookies" setting. Google used a nasty piece of JavaScript to simulate a user form submission so they could store a cookie that would otherwise be rejected.