Google has urged the UK's Supreme Court to throw out a £3bn lawsuit brought by an ex-Which director over secretly planted tracking cookies on devices running Safari, on the grounds that local law doesn’t allow for opt-out class action lawsuits.
The case, being heard over two days this week in the Supreme Court, the final court of appeal in Britain for civil cases, has huge implications for legal businesses and investors as well as data protection law. At stake is a previous Court of Appeal ruling, as well as up to £3bn for a venture capital fund backing former Which man Richard Lloyd's case.
Lloyd fronts a campaign called Google You Owe Us. He seeks somewhere between £1.5bn and £3bn from Google in damages for breach of statutory duty – but before that can be argued about, h ..
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