Google to pay $68 million because its voice assistant eavesdropped on us : technology

[–] bdama@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So people paid Google 60 bucks to buy a wiretap for their house, now for evesdropping they get 10 back. These lawsuits in the US are nonsense

[–] Greg@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago

Just add the ad and gov revenue streams and I’d say this is a wonderful deal. For Google.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's kinda like an involuntary rebate

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did Google have to search under one couch cushion, or did they needed two?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, a totally ridiculous amount of money.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lawyers to collect $67million dollars because google spies on all of us.

[+] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world -8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Still haven't seen a lick of evidence this actually happenes. Just shakedown law suits.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

IIRC from the Apple lawsuit, though I may be wrong, the issue wasn’t that they were like, always listening. The issue was that it was overly sensitive to trigger words and would sometimes activate and listen when it wasn’t supposed to. I can believe this, because even now the stupid thing will sometimes activate when I didn’t want it to, but NOW it’s very obvious that it has activated, whereas before it wasn’t as obvious.

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Won't someone think of the poor multi trillion dollar companies???

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Naw your and the medias screeching is basically the UAC prompt and why nobody takes is seriously 🤷‍♂️.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

skavau is a clown

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