US EditionGoogle settles for $68 million after lawsuit claimed it secretly recorded users
Google will pay $68 million to settle claims that its Assistant recorded private conversations after false activation and shared data with advertisers, without admitting wrongdoing.
- Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming its voice-activated assistant spied on smartphone users, violating their privacy.
- Smartphone users accused Google of illegally recording and disseminating private conversations after Google Assistant was triggered to send targeted ads.
- Google denied wrongdoing but settled to avoid the risk, cost and uncertainty of litigation, court papers show.
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Google Will Pay a $68 Million Settlement After Admitting Its Voice Assistant Recorded Users’ Private Conversations
Millions of Google users may have had private conversations recorded by the company’s voice assistant after it was accidentally activated by everyday speech, according to a new class action lawsuit. The preliminary settlement, filed Friday in San Jose, California, federal court, states that Google Assistant regularly recorded private conversations after being accidentally triggered. How? The assistant mistook everyday speech for its “Hey Google”…
A trigger for the indictment was the 2019 report by the Dutch broadcaster VRT, whose journalists documented that "Google sent parts of conversations to outside contractors who analyzed language patterns."
Google agrees to pay $68 million to resolve a lawsuit for alleged unauthorized recordings of its voice assistant and use of private data
Google agreed to pay $68 million to resolve a collective lawsuit in which smart device users claim that their voice assistant secretly recorded their conversations violating privacy.
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