"Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle claims its voice assistant illegally spied on users to, among other things, serve them advertisements, Reuters reports. Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case, which accused the firm of "unlawful and intentional interception and recording of individuals' confidential communications without their consent and subsequent unauthorized disclosure of those communications to third parties.""
"The case centered on " false accepts," wherein Google Assistant is alleged to have activated and recorded the user's communications even if they had not intentionally prompted it to do so with a wake word. TechCrunch reached out to Google for comment. Americans have long suspected that their devices inappropriately spy on them. Those suspicions have led, increasingly, to claims of legal wrongdoing."
Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action suit alleging that Google Assistant recorded users' communications without consent and disclosed those recordings to third parties. The suit described the conduct as "unlawful and intentional interception and recording of individuals' confidential communications" and claimed that information from recordings was transmitted to third parties for targeted advertising and other purposes. The case focused on "false accepts," where the assistant allegedly activated without a wake word. Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement. Prior privacy settlements include Apple's $95 million Siri payment and Google's $1.4 billion Texas settlement.
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