Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M Sometimes Siri would be inadvertently activated, a whistleblower told The Guardian, when an Apple Watch was raised and speech was detected. The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden, Reuters noted (claims which remain disputed).
Remember when people would say “I swear my phone is listening to my conversation!”? I used to say, nah, it’s not recording you unless there’s a visual indicator. Those ads are probably just from data gathered from you in other ways. That is one of many times I was wrong to not assume the most paranoid position about a tech company.
$95M is 0.059% $162 billion Apple has in *cash alone*.