Supreme Court strikes down £3bn Google data protection claim

LSLA Committee member, David Greene, comments on Google data protection claim in Legal Futures.

The Supreme Court has blocked a £3bn representative action for misuse of private data by Google that did not seek to prove that consumers had actually suffered any damage.

The decision should “stem the tide” of low-value data breach claims that an increasing number of law firms have been pursuing, it has been claimed. Read more >>