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COULD YOU BE ENTITLED TO £750 COMPENSATION FROM GOOGLE, AND HOW CAN YOU CLAIM IT IF YOU ARE? 

Google is being sued by a collective calling itself 'Google You Owe Us'.

The group, spearheaded by former Which? director Richard Lloyd, is suing over reports Google siphoned data from millions of iPhone users in the UK.

The personal data purportedly included details of users' physical and mental heath, political affiliations, sexuality and sexual interests.

These details were used to categorise users into profiles, such as 'football lovers' or 'current affairs enthusiasts', which could be used by advertisers to target specific groups of users.

'Google You Owe Us' claims Google took iPhone users' data by bypassing default privacy settings on the iPhone Safari browser, enabling it to collect data without consent from the user.

This practice took place between June 1 2011 and February 15 2012, the collective claims.

'Google You Owe Us' is seeking compensation of between £1 billion and £3.2 billion.

The latter would result in all affected iPhone users being compensated with a £750 payout.  

You will qualify to join the class action lawsuit if you meet the below criteria.

A) Were you at any time between June 1 2011 and February 15 2012 present in England and Wales and whilst present —

  • i) Did you have an Apple ID?
  •  ii) Did you own or were you in lawful possession of an iPhone? 
  • iii) Did you use the Safari browser to access the internet 
  • iv) Did you keep the default security settings in the Safari browser? 
  • v) Did you not opt-out of tracking and collation via Google’s Ads preference Manager?

B) Were you resident in England and Wales on 31 May 2017?

If the case is successful, members of the claimant class will be asked to register in order to receive money they are owed.

'Google You Owe Us' could also asked iPhone users to provide proof that they qualify to receive money under the claim. For example, proof that you had an Apple ID and were an iPhone user between June 2011 and February 2012.

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