Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users and then shared their private conversations with ...

Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement regarding claims that its voice assistant inappropriately spied on smartphone users. Plaintiffs claimed that the company’s Google Assistant platform began ...

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Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company used its Google Assistant to snoop on customers without their consent, Reuters reports. The lawsuit dates ...

What just happened? Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing its voice assistant of unlawfully recording private conversations and sharing them in ways that may ...

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 ...

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Seeing a sudden infusion of cash in your bank account? If the deposit line reads "Lopez v. Apple," then for once, it's probably not a scam. Payments appearing as "Lopez Voice Assistant" have begun ...

A ruling on office correspondence etiquette. Joann writes: My co-workers like to send voice memos to explain some complex dynamic or dump unfiltered thoughts into the void. I hate it. I don’t want to ...

An assistant principal at a Georgia elementary school was arrested last Monday after being linked to a series of Walmart shoplifting incidents when roughly $1,000 worth of merchandise was taken using ...

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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...