After Apple agreed to pay out $95 million in the Lopez voice assistant class action settlement over the claims that its voice assistant Siri listened in on private conversations, affected users have until July 2, 2025, to claim a part of this amount.
Indeed, under the terms of settlement in the Lopez v. Apple Inc. court dispute initiated in December 2024, which alleges that the technology giant has broken the California Invasion of Privacy Act, Apple has agreed to pay the $95 million (despite denying the allegations in the complaint).
According to the legal notice from the website covering the settlement, you might be eligible “if you owned or purchased a Siri-enabled device and experienced an unintended Siri activation during a confidential or private communication between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024.”
Can you claim your stake in the Lopez voice assistant class action settlement?
Specifically, the plaintiffs have accused Apple of recording private conversations upon unintended Siri activations and sharing the data with third parties. Two of them said they realized this as they received ads about particular brands following a personal conversation about them, and another alleged they got an ad for a medical treatment after a private talk with a doctor.
While some said that they discussed those matters aloud, others claimed that their Siri-supported devices listened to them without having said anything at all.
Following the July 2 deadline, until which affected users have the option to file a claim and receive a payment, exclude themselves and get no payment, comment or object to the settlement, or do nothing – give up rights and be bound by the settlement, the court will hold its final approval hearing on August 1, 2025.
Submitting a claim for up to five Siri devices on which you believe you have experienced an unintended Siri activation during a conversation intended to be confidential or private is possible via a form on the Submit a Claim page. However, the final amount will only become public after the evaluation of all the claims.
As it happens, this isn’t the first time that Apple’s Siri receives criticism of invasion of privacy, with one incident involving a user who said that Siri had picked up something from a song while they were having a shower and it opened all their shades, giving their neighbors a “free show.”
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