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UK Supreme Court Grants Google Permission to Appeal Class Action Claim in Lloyd vs Google LLC

Data Matters

million iPhone users in a lawsuit alleging that between 2011 and 2012 Google had used its “DoubleClick cookie” technology to track the internet activity of its iPhone users and then collate, use and sell the data to advertisers, in breach of the former Data Protection Act, 1998 (“ DPA ”). Court of Appeal’s decision. to the U.S.

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UK: Lloyd -v- Google: a good day for claimant lawyers; a bad day for Google and organisations defending privacy group litigation

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The High Court ought to have exercised its discretion to allow this representative action to proceed. He brings his claim on behalf of more than 4 million Apple I-Phone users; allegedly affected by Safari Workaround in the period from 9 April 2011 to February 2012. At first instance, Warby J exercised this discretion.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

In 2011, there a was user in a chat room by the name of altoid, like the mint. Anyone talking about it in 2011 most likely had inside information. So in this episode, it's not really a handbook for criminal hackers or want to be terrorists, brother this is a purely academic exercise. But again, this is an academic exercise.

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