{"id":987929,"date":"2026-01-27T07:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987929"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:08:03","slug":"google-settles-google-assistant-privacy-lawsuit-for-68-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/27\/google-settles-google-assistant-privacy-lawsuit-for-68-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Google settles Google Assistant privacy lawsuit for $68 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google agreed to pay $68 \u200dmillion to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated \u2060assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users, violating their privacy. <\/p>\n<p>A preliminary class action settlement was filed late Friday \u200cnight in \u200cthe San Jose, California federal court, and requires approval by \u200cU.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman. <\/p>\n<p>Smartphone users accused Google, a unit of Alphabet, of illegally recording and disseminating private conversations after Google Assistant was triggered, in order to send them targeted advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google agreed to pay $68 \u200dmillion to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated \u2060assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users, violating their privacy. A preliminary class action settlement was filed late Friday \u200cnight in \u200cthe San Jose, California federal court, and requires approval by \u200cU.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman. Smartphone users accused Google, a unit of Alphabet, of illegally recording and disseminating private conversations after Google Assistant was triggered, in order to send them targeted advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}