Apple decided to pay $95 million in cash to settle a class action lawsuit, claiming its voice assistant Siri was recording private conversations. On Tuesday, the initial settlement was submitted to the federal court in Oakland, California, awaiting approval from the US District Judge. The class ...
Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its virtual assistant, Siri, recorded conversations without user consent. This lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Oakland, California, claims that Siri was activated unintentionally, capturing private discu...
The article reports on the class-action lawsuit filed by New York man Frank M. Fazio against Apple Inc. over the misleading advertisement of the company promoting the Siri digital assistant on its iPhone 4S at the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California on March 6, 2012. Fazio claims...
Apple to pay $95 million to settle the lawsuit about unauthorized Siri recordings Christian Zibreg∙ January 3, 2025 Apple has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging its Siri assistant recorded conversations even before the wake word was said. Read More Why you see “Maybe”...
A class action lawsuit accused Apple of using recorded conversations with Siri to build an advertising profile of users. Of course, this isn't how the technology works and despite an initial attempt for a judge to throw it out, Apple ultimately settled to end the case in January 2025. ...
Apple recently agreed to pay$95 million to settle a Siri class action lawsuitalleging privacy violations. The company is now restating the voice assistant’s commitment to user privacy through an article on its newsroom. Apple reassures users that it never used Siri data to build marketing profi...
Apple today reiterated its commitment to Siri privacy, making it clear that Siri data has never been used to build marketing profiles, nor has any Siri information been made available to advertisers or sold for any purpose. Apple's newsroom post comes after it settled a class action lawsuit re...
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit, accusing the company of violating user privacy due to recording conversations after accidentally activating Siri. Siri was the target of a privacy-based lawsuit The preliminary settlement, filed in an Oakland, ...
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple in regards to Siri quality control program recordings, alleging that the filer who may or may not have been recorded has been damaged by Apple's doing so, and that Apple never disclosed that recordings may be retained. ...
Although Apple hasn't explained the reasons for making the settlement, major companies often decide it makes more sense to resolve class-action cases rather than to continue to run up legal costs and risk the chance of potentially bad publicity. The lawsuit also targeted one of Apple's core ...