Recently Apple was also shown in court to be using its Siri voice assistant to eavesdrop on private or confidential conversations. Apple is paying a $95 million settlement.
Google to pay $68 million because its voice assistant eavesdropped on us
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-voice-assistant-lawsuit-settlement-68-million/
12 Comments
bdama@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 38 pts · 219d
So people paid Google 60 bucks to buy a wiretap for their house, now for evesdropping they get 10 back. These lawsuits in the US are nonsense
Greg@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 219d
Just add the ad and gov revenue streams and I’d say this is a wonderful deal. For Google.
frunch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
It's kinda like an involuntary rebate
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 9 pts · 219d
Did Google have to search under one couch cushion, or did they needed two?
rimu@piefed.social · 4 pts · 219d
Yes, a totally ridiculous amount of money.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 219d
Lawyers to collect $67million dollars because google spies on all of us.
Socratease@universeodon.com · 4 pts · 219d
@rimu
Shame on them, though the penalty is a drop in the bucket for #Google .
For those with a #Pixel phone, you might want to consider #GrapheneOS .
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 219d
Still haven't seen a lick of evidence this actually happenes. Just shakedown law suits.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 5 pts · 219d
IIRC from the Apple lawsuit, though I may be wrong, the issue wasn’t that they were like, always listening. The issue was that it was overly sensitive to trigger words and would sometimes activate and listen when it wasn’t supposed to. I can believe this, because even now the stupid thing will sometimes activate when I didn’t want it to, but NOW it’s very obvious that it has activated, whereas before it wasn’t as obvious.
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 219d
Won't someone think of the poor multi trillion dollar companies???
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 219d
Naw your and the medias screeching is basically the UAC prompt and why nobody takes is seriously 🤷♂️.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 3 pts · 219d
skavau is a clown