Apple to Compensate Users for Accidental Siri Data Leaks
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused the company of invading users' privacy through its voice-activated assistant, Siri.
This settlement affects U.S.-based individuals who either currently own or have owned a device with Siri (such as an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, iMac, HomePod, iPod touch, or Apple TV) and whose private voice conversations were unintentionally captured by Siri and shared with third parties. This could have happened between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024.
People who qualify can file claims for up to five devices they own or owned and can get $20 for each device where they believe Siri was accidentally activated during a private conversation.
The lawsuit came after a 2019 report from The Guardian, which revealed that Apple hired third-party contractors to listen to users' voice recordings in order to improve Siri, sometimes hearing private conversations without users' consent.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/apple-to-pay-siri-users-20-per-device.html