Google faces lawsuit over alleged iPhone tracking

Internet search giant Google faces a legal battle in the UK over privacy concerns for allegedly tracking Apple users. As many as 10 million iPhone owners in the country reportedly have ground to file a lawsuit against the world's biggest search engine for bypassing the security settings of Apple's Safari browser in iPhone, iPad and desktop computers in order to track their web activity. 


10 iPhone users have already begun legal proceedings against Google and many more are lining up according to a news report in Business Insider. While the company's executives in the US and UK have been given letter-before-action by two users, another 10 are readying to file for legal action. 

The complainants' lawyers have asked Google to clarify how long it circumvented the privacy settings on Apple's browser, how much data was illegally stolen and how it was used. The claimants are reportedly taking the company to court over breach of confidence and privacy, computer misuse and trespass and breach of Data Protection Act 1998. 

These legal proceedings come just a few months after Google was slapped with a $22.5 million fine in US for tracking users via Safari browser. The company admitted it intentionally dodged Safari's security settings which stopped cookies from being installed on computers. Google's DoubleClick ad network reportedly stored cookies on users' devices without their permission.