The article describes the recent decision by the UK Court of Appeal with which the Court dismissed the appeal by Google to prevent users from pursuing action before UK Courts. With the judgment the Court found that: “(i) users can claim compensation for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) for distress where they have not suffered pecuniary damage and (ii) there was a serious issue to be tried that Browser Generated Information is personal data for the purposes of the DPA”
The full text of the article is available at http://www.farrer.co.uk…
Related material on Google Inc. v Vidal-Hall (and others) [2015 EWCA Civ 311] is available at http://www.technethics…