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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?
If you've ever been served an ad for something suspiciously soon after a conversation about that thing, you probably qualify
i doubt apple's lawyers are going to hand me money for saying that.
They already are, since the suit was settled.
. . 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.
It will probably be for less than $11.
Probably.
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.
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.
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.
When you agree to pay the settlement, you're agreeing to the accusations.
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
Now do Windows and Google.
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Damn, this 4 trillion dollar company is really going to feel that
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