According to reports, Apple is giving $95 million users who bought some of their product in the past 10 years. However, there is a condition. For users to meet the award criteria, one has to believe that Siri listened in on a chat without their consent. To that end, those with claims have until July 2, 2025, to file for compensation.
In January, Apple agreed to settle a case about Siri. From the fine, users can now get some of that money.
Claims are now being accepted for the class-action suit. This offer is only for people who bought an Apple product between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024. The item must have been an “iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, iMac, HomePod, iPod touch, or Apple TV.”
Information about how to make a claim and personal codes will be sent to people known to qualify for the settlement. This will happen either by email or postcard. Users can also get a new claim form from the settlement website if they don’t get the first one.
Although $95 million is a lot of money, the claim pool is fairly large, given the popularity of Apple devices and the sizable buy-in period. Therefore, most claimants will receive about $20 per device.
Apple still denies the privacy accusations
A court case said that some of Apple’s products were listening to people without their permission. The company decided to pay $95 million to settle the case. Users said that the tech giant was listening in on its customers through Siri, its virtual helper.
The claimants also say that marketers were given voice recordings. However, Apple has denied selling Siri data and said it settled to avoid further litigation. Apple spokesperson said, “Siri data has never been used to build marketing profiles, and it has never been sold to anyone for any purpose.”
“Apple settled this case to avoid additional litigation so we can move forward from concerns about third-party grading that we already addressed in 2019,” they added. They said that its digital helper was designed from the start to protect user privacy and has always worked to improve its privacy.
Meanwhile, Apple is asking an appeals court to put on hold a recent decision made by a US district judge in a case that could affect the future of its very successful App Store.
Last week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found that the tech giant willfully broke an order she had made before in a case brought by Epic Games, the company that makes Fortnite.
That order, which came down in 2021, told Apple to stop acting and pricing in ways that hurt competition and to let people use other payment methods in the App Store. She found that Apple was not following that demand last week.
Apple Is Making Its Own Chip for Smart Glasses
Apple is quietly building the next evolution in wearable technology with the development of its own custom chip for smart glasses.
Multiple sources say that the tech giant is working on a new processor, which has been codenamed N401 and is specially designed for its highly anticipated smart glasses.
Apple started designing its chips with the A-series chips in iPhones and moved on to the M-series chips that power Macs and iPads. Now, Apple is using this method for wearable computing. According to reports, the N401 chip is based on the S-series chips used in Apple Watches. It is designed to use very little power and be small.
Instead of focusing on a wide range of uses, the N401 is a chip that is specifically designed for one use case. It is made to handle the needs of camera systems, sensors, and real-time processing well.
The smart glasses are set to come out sometime between the end of 2026 and the beginning of 2027.
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