Apple Siri App Privacy Violation Canadian Class Action

Apple Siri App Privacy Violation Canadian Class Action

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ON Jan 28, 2025 [en]

Notice of Civil Claim

CONSUMER LAW GROUP has filed a Canada-wide class action lawsuit – excluding Quebec – against Apple Inc. and Apple Canada. Inc. for surreptitiously recording private communications via the Siri voice-recognition intelligent assistant application and disclosing that personal information to third parties without user knowledge or consent.

Siri is a voice-recognition software preloaded by Apple on Apple-manufactured devices, including the Apple iPhone, Apple Watches, iPad tablets, HomePod smart speakers, AirPod headphones, iMac computers, and MacBook laptops (“Siri Devices”). Siri records users’ vocal prompts and responds to them based on information available on the internet.

News sources and US court proceedings recently revealed that Siri is routinely triggered by accidental activations when users neither expect nor intend it to be listening and subsequently records voice conversations that include the Siri user. An article published in The Guardian revealed that the secretly recorded communications include confidential conversations between doctors and patients, business deals, and the recordings of persons having sex.

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