Google Faces Legal Action Over Alleged Secret iPhone Tracking

Josh Halliday
Guardian.co.uk
January 28, 2013

Google is facing a fresh privacy battle in the UK over its alleged secret tracking of the internet habits of millions of iPhone users.

An estimated 10 million Britons could have grounds to launch a privacy claim over the way Google circumvented Apple’s security settings on the iPhone, iPad and desktop versions of its Safari web browser to monitor their behaviour.

At least 10 British iPhone users have started legal proceedings and dozens more are being lined up, according to Dan Tench, the lawyer behind the action at the London-based firm Olswang.

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This article was posted: Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:51 am

Tags: domestic spying, internet, technology

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