Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users (techcrunch.com)

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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.”

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

There should be no settling.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

It's the perfect example of how capitalism is incompatible with democracy and the rule of law.

If you can just pay your way out of consequences of breaking the law, then we have neither democracy nor law.

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