In 2024, Google was sued for allegedly listening to users' conversations without their permission or knowledge. That said, what should you know about it?
Was there a privacy breach?
For your information, devices with Google Assistant support would previously listen to users' conversations for the "Hey Google" command before it was activated. However, several issues, such as “false accepts ” or false confirmations that show Google Assistant is activated even though the user did not say Hey Google to activate it, made many users feel that all their conversations were being listened to and recorded by their device.
In addition, Google reportedly settled the lawsuit with a $68 million payment recently to avoid further delay, although the party is still adamant in saying that Google Assistant does not record user conversations without permission. This is not a case unique to Google, either. In 2021, Apple also paid $95 million in a similar lawsuit over its own virtual assistant, Siri.
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