The lawsuit dates back to 2021 and stems from a 2019 news story from Belgium's VRT NWS that said the Google Assistant was ...

The tech giant did not admit wrongdoing in the case.

Google agrees to pay $68 million to settle claims its assistant tool secretly recorded users, which the plaintiffs argued ...

It was claimed that Google Assistant was inadvertently activated on Android devices and recorded conversations that were ...

The plaintiffs’ accusations had also included a claim that “information gleaned from these recordings was wrongly transmitted ...

By Jonathan Stempel Jan 26 (Reuters) - Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated ...

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Jose, California, centers on what are known in the industry as "false accepts" – ...

Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

Google to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit related to its voice assistant. The case said Google Assistant sometimes ...

Google has denied all wrongdoing but agreed to the settlement to avoid the high cost and uncertainty of a long legal battle.

The settlement follows allegations that Google Assistant activated without consent and captured private conversations.

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...