{"id":2199,"date":"2026-01-26T23:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/google-will-settle-its-assistant-spying-lawsuit-for-68-million\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:45:53","slug":"google-will-settle-its-assistant-spying-lawsuit-for-68-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/google-will-settle-its-assistant-spying-lawsuit-for-68-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Google will settle its Assistant spying lawsuit for $68 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/19482921\/acastro_180510_1777_google_assistant_0001.0.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Google could owe you some money, now that it&rsquo;s moving to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it handled recordings captured when its devices were activated by something other than Google Assistant&rsquo;s actual trigger word, \u00ab\u00a0Ok Google.\u00a0\u00bb German outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/7\/11\/20690020\/google-assistant-home-human-contractors-listening-recordings-vrt-nws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>VRT NWS<\/em>&lsquo;s 2019 report<\/a> exposed the issue, and court filings from last Friday say the proposed settlement number is $68 million, as reported previously by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/google-settles-google-assistant-privacy-lawsuit-68-million-2026-01-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.googleassistantprivacylitigation.com\/Home\/Contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> accuses Google of \u00ab\u00a0unlawful and intentional recording of individuals&rsquo; confidential communications without their consent,\u00a0\u00bb during these \u00ab\u00a0False Accepts.\u00a0\u00bb <em>VRT NWS<\/em> reported that human workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/7\/11\/20690020\/google-assistant-home-human-contractors-listening-recordings-vrt-nws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who analyzed Assistant audio clips<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/868078\/google-assistant-lawsuit-settlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google could owe you some money, now that it&rsquo;s moving to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it handled recordings [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}