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Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: January 02, 2025 10:36PM
Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping


OAKLAND, Calif. - Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.

What we know:
The proposed settlement, filed Tuesday in an Oakland federal court, could resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated Siri to record conversations through iPhones and other devices equipped with the virtual assistant for more than a decade.

The alleged recordings occurred even when people didn’t seek to activate the virtual assistant with the trigger words, "Hey, Siri." Some of the recorded conversations were then shared with advertisers in an attempt to sell their products to consumers more likely to be interested in the goods and services, the lawsuit asserted.


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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: Wags
Date: January 02, 2025 10:58PM
Where’s my money
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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: January 02, 2025 11:47PM
I'm still counting up my eligible devices.






I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: pqrst
Date: January 03, 2025 01:15AM
Siri….. you owe me a million Zillon dollars.
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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: special
Date: January 03, 2025 06:30AM
so about 1/2 penny per device? The lawyers take the fees and we get 0.1 penny?
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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: chopper
Date: January 03, 2025 07:55AM
There must be 10 old iPhones in my bottom toolbox drawer ...
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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: January 03, 2025 08:32AM
so about 1/2 penny per device? The lawyers take the fees and we get 0.1 penny?


Lawyers are always going to get the lion share.

This shouldn't be news.

You don't have to file, and skip the agita.






I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: Michael
Date: January 03, 2025 11:59AM
We regularly get ads for things we've talked about. But, is it Siri, Alexa or Google that's listening--or all three? I'll sign up for Apple's settlement. Since it starts in Sept. 2014, I figure that between us we've had 8 watches, 8 iPhones and 4 laptops.
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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: vision63
Date: January 03, 2025 01:36PM
I don't care if they listen. I'm insignificant. So is everybody else, they just don't recognize it yet. There are people that deny their devices location information complaining that it can't navigate them to the nearest donut shop.

"Siri, if the phone is a-rockin, don't come a-knockin."
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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: January 03, 2025 03:44PM
....speak softly and carry a big sledgehammer [ to smash idevices ].....



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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: Speedy
Date: January 03, 2025 11:23PM
Where is the link to file a claim? Show me the money!



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Re: Apple will pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: January 04, 2025 11:48AM
.....I Know What You Did Last Summer......



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