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Bid to revive UK privacy damages suit against Google DeepMind fails to show class
Another attempt to get a class-action style privacy damages case to stick against Google has failed in the U.K. after the Court of Appeal refused to
Another attempt to get a class-action style privacy damages case to stick against Google has failed in the U.K. after the Court of Appeal refused to overturn an earlier dismissal. The lawsuit concerned the misuse of health records for some 1.6 million patients whose information was passed to Google’s AI division, DeepMind, back in 2015 when it was developing an app. In a judgement Wednesday, the Court of Appeal underscored the challenges of privacy class claims, pointing back to another unsuccessful suit ( Lloyd v Google) — and stating “the difficulties of bringing a representative action for misuse of private information” have, once again, “not been surmounted.”
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