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

Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that ⁠its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on ...

The claimants say Google Assistant recorded private conversations without their knowledge.

Users reportedly complained the were targeted with ads based on things they had said, even when they hadn't activated their smart devices.

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

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

Many settlement agreements don't say anything about tax forms. Yet many defendants issue a Form 1099 to the plaintiff, and a ...