Apple to Pay $95M to Settle Lawsuit Accusing Siri of Spying

Mar. 15, 2025

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The proposed settlement was filed on Dec. 31, 2024, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, per theAssociated Press.

“Significantly, Apple knows that unauthorized recordings are common and as such tasks its human reviewers with, among other things, identifying whether Siri was deliberately activated or not,” the complaint later added. “Despite this, Apple has not informed consumers they are regularly being recorded without consent.”

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The original complaint also stated that had customers known that Apple were recording their conversations, they would have not purchased the Siri-enabled devices.

In a statement shared with PEOPLE on Monday, Jan. 6, an Apple spokesperson said about the settlement: “Siri has been engineered to protect user privacy from the beginning. Siri data has never been used to build marketing profiles and it has never been sold to anyone for any purpose. Apple settled this case to avoid additional litigation so we can move forward from concerns about third-party grading that we already addressed in 2019. We use Siri data to improve Siri, and we are constantly developing technologies to make Siri even more private.”

source: people.com