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Stevie Bonifield @ The Verge · today 14:45 EDT

Google will settle its Assistant spying lawsuit for $68 million

Google could owe you some money, now that it'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's actual trigger word, "Ok Google." German outlet VRT NWS's 2019 report exposed the issue, and court filings from last Friday say the proposed […]

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