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Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement to resolve class-action claims that its voice assistant illegally intercepted and recorded user communications without consent, allegedly for targeted advertising and other purposes. The company did not admit wrongdoing, and the case focused on 'false accepts' where the assistant activated unintentionally.
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Google 同意支付 6800 萬美元，以和解一項集體訴訟，該訴訟指控其語音助理在未經同意的情況下非法攔截和錄製用戶通訊，據稱是為了定向廣告和其他目的。Google 並未承認錯誤，該案件主要聚焦於語音助理在未經用戶意圖觸發的情況下意外啟動並錄音的「誤觸」情況。
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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 suit further claimed that “information gleaned from these recordings was wrongly transmitted to third parties for targeted advertising and for other purposes.”
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. In 2021, Apple agreed to pay $95 million to settle claims its voice assistant, Siri, had recorded their conversations without a prompt from users.
Google, like other tech giants, has faced other privacy-related litigation in recent years. Last year, the company agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle two lawsuits that claimed the company had violated its data privacy laws.
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