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Apple agrees to settle a 2019 Siri privacy lawsuit for $95 million

It stems from a 2019 class action lawsuit. Class members could get up to $20 per Siri-enabled device they owned during the last decade.

The lawsuit stemmed from a 2019 report that Apple quality control contractors could regularly hear sensitive info accidentally recorded by the voice assistant’s “Hey Siri” feature. Two plaintiffs claimed their inadvertently recorded mentions of Nike Air Jordans and Olive Garden restaurants led to receiving ads for those products. It reportedly fired hundreds of quality control contractors and changed its policy so that only Apple employees could review private Siri data.

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