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Apple paying $95M in a Siri eavesdropping settlement

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-siri-settlement-95-million-lopez-how-to-file-claim/

21•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago

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stayhydratedboy•1h ago

I don't understand why Apple settled. You can set up a network proxy and verify for yourself that no traffic happens until you manually activate Siri. And what kind of valuable data do you get from "unintended activations" that's worth selling to a restaurant or store? Is $95 million just cheap enough that they don't want to fight it?

al_borland•10m ago

> Is $95 million just cheap enough that they don't want to fight it?

Likely this. Also, the more they fight it, the more press it gets.

Even if no data was sent, the accidental activation is very annoying. I disabled Hey Siri on all my HomePods, because I got so tired of it going off while I was watching TV. Now the HomePods are just speakers I have to manually send music to.

Maybe $95m will be enough to get them to improve the feature so I can enable them again.

NaOH•54m ago

Previous and related:

Did Siri spy on you? You could receive part of a $95M settlement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44004682 - May 2025 (2 comments)

Siri listened in on private conversations, Apple pays out $95M in lawsuit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928424 - May 2025 (4 comments)

Note the article linked here from May indicates the deadline for filing a claim passed months ago.

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