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Title: You can now claim your piece of Apple's $95 million Siri privacy
settlement

Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 21:30:20 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/you-can-now...

If you purchased an Apple device in the last 10 years, you might be able to
receive some of the money from the company's recently settled spying lawsuit.
The original lawsuit claimed Apple was capturing sensitive information with
its Siri voice assistant without users' consent, and sending it to third-
party contractors. The company agreed to settle the case for $95 million in
January 2025, and thanks to the new landing page for the settlement, there's
now a way to file a claim on your own.

To file a claim, you you need to have bought an "iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch,
MacBook, iMac, HomePod, iPod touch or Apple TV" between September 17, 2014
and December 31, 2024, and believe Siri accidentally activated on your device
during a private conversation. From the $95 million Apple is paying out, you
can receive up to $20 per device you believe called up Siri, provided you
swear under oath it happened.

You have until July 2, 2025 to file your claim. If you qualify for the
settlement, you may have already been notified with information on your Claim
Identification Number and Claim Confirmation Code. If you haven't received
either but believe the settlement applies, you're free to submit a claim on
your own.

Apple claims that Siri was designed with protecting users' privacy in mind,
and agreeing to share data to improve the voice assistant ΓÇö through your
device's Privacy & Security settings ΓÇö never uses audio recordings or
transcripts for anything other than training. In the case of newer devices,
voice data is processed locally anyway, so agreeing to share your data is
supposed to be the only way Apple could ever access it.

Given the growing focus on AI, and the large amounts of data needed to train
it, there's good reason to be skeptical about where companies are getting
their training material. Apple prefers to get its customers consent, but the
company has turned to new sources to help its AI research along. For example,
Apple recently disclosed that it will start using the images captured for its
Street View-esque feature in Apple Maps to train its models.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-
tech/you-can-now-claim-your-piece-of-apples-95-million-siri-privacy-
settlement-213020351.html?src=rss

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