Apple could soon owe you money thanks to Siri eavesdropping settlement

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• Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit.
• The proposed lawsuit claims that the company’s voice assistant violated users’ privacy by recording private conversations.
• If the settlement is approved, Apple will offer up to $20 per Siri-enabled device, up to five devices.

Have you ever questioned if your devices are secretly listening to you? If you’re an owner of an iPhone or other Apple device, it seems like that may have been the case. The tech giant has now agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges Siri routinely recorded private conversations and shared that information with third parties for the purpose of ad targeting.

On Tuesday, a preliminary settlement was filed in an Oakland, California federal court. The settlement aims to resolve a lawsuit that’s five years in the making. This lawsuit alleges that Siri would inadvertently activate to record conversations even without a trigger word like “Hey, Siri” being uttered.




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