After a trial, Apple decided to reach a pre-trial settlement for which it will pay a total of $95 million
Five years ago, a controversy broke out around Apple due to the record certain user conversations with Siri. For this reason, a lawsuit was filed against the company for “illegal and intentional registration” and failure to inform users. And now Apple has struck a deal for a total of $95 million.
Although District Judge Jeffrey White has not yet approved the deal in federal court in Oakland, California, it appears it will happen in the coming hours, according to reports. Reuters. The plaintiffs complained that Apple regularly recorded your private conversations after accidentally activating Siribecause after these private conversations, announcements appeared about what had been discussed.
Even if the signing of this agreement This does not mean that Apple recognizes the problemeven though at the time the company had already apologized for these problems. Apple implemented new privacy practices: reviewed the use of third-party companies in Siri analytics, added explicit permissions for audio recording, and strengthened the “Ask app not to track” system. All of this rolled out with iOS 13.2.
Apple has arrived. an agreement for this long trial which may end with 20 dollars for each affected user
Agreement can be a simple way to avoid wasting more time on this topic. Considering how much Apple makes per year, In just 9 hours you get this amount of money. Since 2019, Siri has changed a lot and Apple has made many changes to avoid these types of privacy issues.
The deal may cost around $20 for each affected user
In this type of trial, only affected users from the country where the agreement took place will be able to obtain this reward. SO, only Siri users in the United States could claim. Even though the deal hasn't been accepted yet, there is still no way to claim it.
In addition, You will need to prove somehow that you had an iPhone at that timearound 2019. It is estimated that there could be tens of millions of affected users in the United States and that a form will soon be opened for them to lose their registration and receive some of this compensation.
And If you reside in a country other than the United States, you will not be eligible for this compensation. Although it is possible that other associations, seeing success in the American country, will make different requests to Apple for the same reason in other countries in order to reach similar agreements.
In countries like USA there are similar lawsuits against Apple, such as the OCU's accusation of slowing down certain iPhone models. Lawsuits that could lead to agreements similar to those reached by Apple recently.
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