{"id":988310,"date":"2026-01-28T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988310"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:02:22","slug":"google-guilty-of-spying-on-mobile-users-agrees-to-pay-68-million-to-settle-a-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/google-guilty-of-spying-on-mobile-users-agrees-to-pay-68-million-to-settle-a-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Google guilty of spying on mobile users? Agrees to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phrases like \u201cHey Google\u201d or \u201cOkay Google\u201d have become an indispensable part of our lives, with smart devices serving as silent spectators that we often forget. However, a recent legal action against the tech giant behind the voice-activated assistant raised hefty allegations that Google was inappropriately spying on smartphone users and invading their privacy. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that the company had reached a tentative $68 million settlement \u2014 while denying any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phrases like \u201cHey Google\u201d or \u201cOkay Google\u201d have become an indispensable part of our lives, with smart devices serving as silent spectators that we often forget. However, a recent legal action against the tech giant behind the voice-activated assistant raised hefty allegations that Google was inappropriately spying on smartphone users and invading their privacy. Reuters reported that the company had reached a tentative $68 million settlement \u2014 while denying any wrongdoing.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988310","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=988310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}