Srinagar, May 14 -- Apple has agreed to pay $95 million (approximately Rs.810 crore) to settle a class-action lawsuit in the United States that accused the company of violating user privacy through its Siri voice assistant. The case, titled Lopez v. Apple, was filed in a federal court in California in 2021 and centered on allegations that Siri-enabled devices were unintentionally activating and recording private conversations without users' consent.

The plaintiffs claimed these recordings were at times shared with third parties, including advertisers, raising serious concerns about unauthorized data collection. According to reports, the issue affected devices such as iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, MacBooks, iMacs, Apple TVs, HomePods, an...