{"id":988300,"date":"2026-01-28T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988300"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:57:20","slug":"google-to-pay-68-million-in-voice-assistant-privacy-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/google-to-pay-68-million-in-voice-assistant-privacy-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to pay $68 million in voice assistant privacy settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused its voice assistant of illegally recording users\u2019 conversations, says news agency Reuters. The proposed settlement was filed in a California federal court and now requires approval by US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman. As part of the settlement, eligible users who owned Google devices dating back to May 2016 will get a payout from the company.<\/p>\n<p>Why lawsuit against Google\u2019s voice assistant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused its voice assistant of illegally recording users\u2019 conversations, says news agency Reuters. The proposed settlement was filed in a California federal court and now requires approval by US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman. As part of the settlement, eligible users who owned Google devices dating back to May 2016 will get a payout from the company. Why lawsuit against Google\u2019s voice assistant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988300","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}