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Google mounts fresh bid to overturn UK damages ruling

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By John Glenday, Reporter

December 1, 2014 | 1 min read

Google is mounting a fresh bid to overturn a High Court privacy ruling which awarded payment of damages to potentially millions of Britons for bypassing the security settings on Apple devices.

It is the second time that the search giant has attempted to overturn the ruling on the grounds that British courts have no jurisdiction over the issue.

Now Google is taking its case to the Court of Appeal, arguing that consumers suffered no actual harm and that a similar case was dismissed by US courts.

In a statement Google said: “We don’t think it meets the court’s standards required for it to be heard, which is why we are appealing it.”

Dan Trench, partner at Olswang which is representing three claimants, said: “There is no legal principle that prevents these types of claims to be taken against overseas defendants.”

The legal spat revolves around an episode in 2011/12 when Google bypasses security settings on Apple’s Safari browser, allowing it to access tracking cookies as people browsed.

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