Title: UK privacy watchdog intervenes in hearing over
Google’s use of web data
Summary:
The UK’s privacy regulator, the
information commissioner, has taken the unusual step of intervening in a court
of appeal case in which Google is seeking to prevent British
consumers from suing it. Google was
to be sued in the UK for exploiting security loopholes to track Apple’s
devices for advertising. The case is being brought on behalf of about 100
Britons, but if they win it could open the company up to claims from millions
more who were using Apple equipment in 2010.
Facts/Phrases:
Ø Google
is seeking to have the case dismissed on the basis that “there is no serious
issue to be tried” because the “alleged incursion into the private life by
[Google’s] use of cookies does not reach a level of seriousness to engage
Article 8 [of the Human Rights Act 1998]”.
Opinion:
In my opinion, this article demonstrates the
power of major media institutions like Google are getting away with using
loopholes in security in order to get a advantage on their competition, to earn
a more profit even though Google is the one the largest internet institutions
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