Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a major class-action lawsuit alleging its voice-activated Assistant unlawfully recorded private conversations on Android-powered devices.
‘False accepts’
Filed in federal court in San Jose, California, the proposed settlement — which still requires the judge’s approval — would provide compensation to affected users who owned devices with the Google Assistant enabled as far back as May 2016.
At the centre of the litigation are so-called “false