U.K. Consumers Win Safari Web Tracking Court of Appeal Case

Digital Marketing Agency, U.K. consumers have been given the right to sue Google over revelations from 2012 that it bypassed security settings in Apple’s Safari browser to track users.

The judgement read: "They concern what is alleged to have been the secret and blanket tracking and collation of information, often of an extremely private nature, as specified in the confidential schedules, about and associated with the claimants’ Internet use, and the subsequent use of that information for about nine months."

One of the claimants, Judith Vidal-Hall, said: "The Court of Appeal has ensured that Google cannot use its vast resources to evade English justice. Ordinary computer users like me will now have the right to hold this giant to account before the courts for its unacceptable, immoral, and unjust actions."