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Class Actions: Damages to the Class or the Community?
Class actions result when a company’s, for example, actions or inactions impact a large class of individuals, rather than one individual plaintiff.
Two well-known cases, turned-Hollywood movies, of class actions include those represented in “Erin Brockovich”, starring Julia Roberts and “A Civil Action”, starring John Travolta.
Throughout Canada, like the US, class action litigation has increased in the recent years. Many of these actions arise due to “data breaches” (aka privacy and security breaches) on mass scales. This includes breaches of Yahoo, LifeLabs, and Simon Fraser University, among many others.