Why would anyone settle for that? I smell corruuuuuption! Where’s Luigi when you need him
Comment on Apple to pay $95m to settle claims Siri listened to users’ private conversations
Karkitoo@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Class members, estimated in the tens of millions, may receive up to $20 per Siri-enabled device, such as iPhones and Apple Watches.
The $95m is about nine hours of profit for Apple, whose net income was $93.74bn in its latest fiscal year.
That, of course, will cover the violation rate of privacy and all the private discussions sent to third party advertisers. Also the amount is negligible against their annual profits.
Remember, a settlement does not involve an admission of wrongdoing nor a judicial finding of liability. Therefore no action (most probably) will be done on Apple’s side.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
TingoTenga@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I shudder to imagine about all of the companies that license their databases about consumer data, as well as the “insights” that consultants extract from them (and who their clients are),