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Apple agrees to pay millions to settle Siri spying case
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, speaks about Siri during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, June 4, 2018

APPLE has agreed to pay $95 million (£76m) to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to spy on people, it was reported on Thursday.

The proposed settlement filed in a US federal court in Oakland, California, would resolve a five-year old lawsuit alleging that Apple secretly activated Siri to record conversations through iPhones and other devices equipped with the virtual assistant for more than a decade.

The alleged recordings occurred even when people didn’t seek to activate the virtual assistant with the trigger words “hey, Siri.”

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