Billions in data protection lawsuits rides on Google’s last-ditch UK Supreme Court defence for Safari Workaround sueball

Google has urged the UK’s Supreme Court to throw out a £3bn lawsuit brought by an ex-Which director over secretly planted tracking cookies on devices running Safari, on the grounds that local law doesn’t allow for opt-out class action lawsuits. The case, being heard over two days this week in the Supreme Court, the final court of appeal in Britain for civil cases, has huge implications for legal businesses and investors as well as data protection law.

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