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Apple Agrees to $95 Million Settlement in Siri Eavesdropping Lawsuit (gizmodo.com)

submitted 4 days ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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The lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit, Fumiko Lopez, alleged that Apple devices improperly recorded their daughter, who was a minor, mentioning brand names like Olive Garden and Air Jordans and then served her advertisements for those brands on Apple’s Safari browser. Other named plaintiffs alleged that their Siri-enabled devices entered listening mode without them saying “Hey Siri” while they were having intimate conversations in their bedrooms or were talking with their doctors.

In their suit, the plaintiffs characterized the privacy invasions as particularly egregious given that a core component of Apple’s marketing strategy in recent years has been to frame its devices as privacy-friendly. For example, an Apple billboard at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show read “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone,” according to the lawsuit.

The proposed settlement, filed in California federal district court on Tuesday, covers people who owned Siri-enabled devices from September 17, 2014 to December 31, 2024 and whose private communications were recorded by an unintended Siri activation. Payout amounts will be determined by how many Apple devices a class member owned that improperly activated a listening session.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

covers people who owned Siri-enabled devices from September 17, 2014 to December 31, 2024 and whose private communications were recorded by an unintended Siri activation.

How the fuck would we know that?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you've ever been served an ad for something suspiciously soon after a conversation about that thing, you probably qualify

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i doubt apple's lawyers are going to hand me money for saying that.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They already are, since the suit was settled.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

. . so just say "yeah Siri recorded me without my permission" and they'll give me money? I mean, I have my $11 check for the price-fixing of CDs, but I doubt it's that simple. Besides, $95M between well, 200 million people is going to be . . . not much.

[–] finley@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It will probably be for less than $11.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Probably.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There’s no proof Siri shared data with advertisers. Apple settled because accidental activations recording intimate conversations were sent to a QA team of human beings to review the audio recordings. Apple has agreed to be upfront about it and publish guidelines as well as adding an “opt in” setting on devices.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes there is:

The lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit, Fumiko Lopez, alleged that Apple devices improperly recorded their daughter, who was a minor, mentioning brand names like Olive Garden and Air Jordans and then served her advertisements for those brands on Apple’s Safari browser.

Shortly after The Guardian’s report, Apple temporarily suspended all human grading of Siri responses and acknowledged that “we haven’t been fully living up to our high ideals.” The company said it would resume human grading after releasing software updates and that going forward, graders would be given computer-generated transcripts of conversations, rather than the audio itself, and that only Apple employees, and not third-party contractors, would conduct the grading.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No. That says they were accused of it. It doesn’t say Apple actually did it or admitted to it. What they admitted to was sending audio recordings of Siri responses to a human QA team for review without any opt in/out from the user.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When you agree to pay the settlement, you're agreeing to the accusations.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

That’s not how settlements work. One of the points of settling is to have the case dismissed without admission of guilt.

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-a-settlement-offer-an-admission-of-guilt--4618844.html