A European court decision from May has provided encouragement for claimants seeking compensation who are upset about the collection of their personal data in breach of GDPR. Tim Brown, a partner with Hausfeld, looks at the implications.
The European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) has been in force for five years, and claims for compensation across Europe are ironing out procedural uncertainties and making incremental progress towards an effective private enforcement regime for data breach claims. In the U.K., post the Supreme Court’s decision in Lloyd v Google LLC [2021] UKSC 50, there are renewed attempts to bring data breach claims on a class-wide basis.
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