The group “Google You Owe Us” has taken action against Google. The group, which formed back in 2012, is accusing the company of collecting the personal data of millions of users. The group’s leader, Richard Lloyd, is a former Executive Director of the publication ‘Which?’ and has gained support of the lawfirm Mishcon de Reya for the case. This allegation focuses on Google unlawfully accumulating personal information from about 5.4 million UK users by sidestepping the browser Safari’s privacy settings on their iPhones. This is the first mass legal action of its kind in the United Kingdom.

“Well, it’s illegal and also a person’s private information is private and so that means it should be theirs and theirs alone,” freshman Ross Tharp said.

This isn’t the first time Google has been accused in this manner. In 2012, Google agreed to pay a total of 22.5 million dollars following a case against the United States Federal Trade Commission years prior. Google mentioned in an interview with the BBC that this sort of case has been brought to them before and that they plan on contesting it.

“[Google] might be making more money from this than they would have to give out if they get sued,” Tharp said.

Tharp believes Google is stealing this information on purpose for the benefit of their company. Both Tharp and freshman Lee Wiseman also agreed that those affected should take action to get compensated for their loss.

“I think people would be happy and thank Mr. Lloyd for bringing up the case [if they won],” Wiseman said.

If this case is successful in Lloyd’s favor, all users who may have been affected during the time periods of June 1, 2011 and February 15, 2012 and were present in the countries England and Wales could receive compensation for the ordeal. The individuals must also have owned an iPhone and used Safari as their browser with Google’s ‘Ad Preference Manager’ enabled on tracking.

Tharp also reasoned that Google may have allowed their own access to these citizens information through their Terms and Conditions required to be accepted before using Google. With this not being Google’s first time facing this matter, Wiseman believes Google to be guilty and suggests that they should come clean.

“Just apologize for what you’ve done,” Wiseman said.