TL;DR
- Google has filed a preliminary class action settlement agreeing to pay $68M in an Assistant privacy suit.
- Plaintiffs alleged that they were targeted with ads based on conversations that Assistant was never supposed to be listening to.
- Despite its willingness to settle, Google denies any wrongdoing.
How much of your life have you lived with a smart speaker listening in on you? The original Google Home turns 10 later this year, and Amazon Echo’s been around even longer. For as convenient as this kind of smart home hardware can be, are we sacrificing too much of our privacy by having it around? That old question is back on our minds again this week, as we get word about some big progress in a class-action Google Assistant privacy lawsuit.
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