iPhone users suing Google over data-collection claims may be seeking as much as £3.2 billion (US$4.29bil or RM17.07bil), the search giant said in a court filing. The group representing iPhone users, known as Google You Owe Us, now includes 4.4 million people, according to documents filed with the court at a hearing Monday. The group says the Alphabet Inc unit unlawfully collected people’s personal information by bypassing Apple Inc’s iPhone default privacy settings. Privacy has been a hot topic for the manufacturers of the world’s most popular devices, from Apple to Samsung Electronics Co to Google. The group said that Google used an algorithm that allowed developers to track a user’s browsing history and collect personal information.

Source: The Star May 22, 2018 08:15 UTC