Antony White, a lawyer for Google, told the first day of a two-day hearing that the maiden, U.S.-style data protection lawsuit could only seek redress under English laws if any data breach had led to claimants suffering damage.
“It is not my case that loss of personal data may not have serious consequences, but it may not always do so in a way that attracts compensation,” he said, adding that any uniform award would also fail to take into account differing phone usage.
Richard Lloyd, a former director at consumer rights group Which?, is leading the claim that seeks to extend Britain’s fledgling class action regime – and multi-billion pound data protection claims against tech giants, such as Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, rest on the judgment.
Lloyd has previously estimated that damages could run to 750 pounds per iPhone user, potentially…
