On May 13, I got an email with the subject line “Lopez Voice Assistant Class Action Settlement” that I initially ignored as yet another spam message in my inbox.
“‘Lopez Voice Assistant Settlement Administrator’ sounds like a scam bot,” I thought as I read the name of the sender. But then my eyes widened when I saw what the legalese contained.
I, along with many others, are receiving notices from a legitimate settlement administrator because of a class-action settlement that claims Apple’s virtual assistant Siri may have been eavesdropping on our private conversations when it was not supposed to do so.
Apple does not admit to wrongdoing, but it agreed to a $95 million settlement earlier this year. As part of it, millions of Apple device users are now eligible to get their slice of this settlement pie. If Apple’s records indicate that you may be a member of the settlement class, you may have already gotten a notice about how to file a claim and receive a payment, like I did. But even if you did not, you could still be entitled to get money.
Here’s how to know if you could be eligible to file a claim and how.
