iPhone users could be owed £750 compensation from Google over illegal data breaches

Apple fans will be pleased to hear that they could be due a payout of £750 after Google was alleged to have illegally harvested the data of iPhone users.

A mass legal action against the tech giant has been given the go ahead by the Court of Appeal. It claims that Google collected sensitive data from millions of iPhone users.

The action can go ahead after an initial decision was overturned, now allowing consumer champion Richard Lloyd to move forward with legal proceedings in support of the allegation.

The case is worth as much as £3.2 billion and could see more than four million iPhone users handed £750 in compensation.

Tech companies are ‘not above the law’

Speaking after the ruling, Mr Lloyd said, "Today's judgement sends a very clear message to Google and other large tech companies – you are not above the law.

"Google can be held to account in this country for misusing peoples' personal data, and groups of consumers can together ask the courts for redress when firms profit unlawfully from 'repeated and widespread' v