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Court Says Google Can Be Sued Over Tracking

  • Gigaom, Thursday, January 16, 2014 2:26 PM

A group of privacy activists in England have won permission to sue Google in that country over its tricking of Apple’s Safari browser into accepting its tracking cookies, even when the browser settings forbade this. The judge argued that it should be heard in an English court, because it dealt with a “developing area” of English law, and because it was unreasonable to expect a small group of individuals to spend a fortune suing Google in the U.S. when the alleged damage was done in England.

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