Stefan Mileschin

Court says no one suffered damage

The High Court has blocked a bid to sue Google for allegedly unlawfully taking data from 4.4 million UK iPhone users.

A group called Google You Owe Us, led by former Which director Richard Lloyd, was seeking compensation for people whose handsets were tracked by Google for several months in 2011 and 2012.

Justice Warby, who oversaw the case, explained that it was blocked because the claims that people suffered damage were not supported by the facts advanced by the campaign group.

Another reason for blocking it, he said, was the impossibility of reliably calculating the number of iPhone users affected by the alleged privacy breach.

Lloyd said in a statement: "Today's judgement is extremely disappointing and effectively leaves millions of people without any practical way to seek redress and compensation when their data has been misused."

He added that he would seek permission to appeal against the verdict on behalf of the 20,000 people who signed up to the campaign.

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