The biggest complaint against Google’s voice assistant! There have been allegations of privacy violations. It is said that Google Assistant is getting ‘Adi’ from users’ words without permission. About which the debate is raging. Finally, in this case, Sundar Pichaid’s company was fined 6.8 million dollars. In Indian currency that is about 560 crore rupees.
In fact, if the location of the smartphone is on, then Google can know all the movements of the users. Moreover, Google carefully keeps the history of what you search on the search engine or YouTube. This is not the end, many people do voice search on Google. From there you can know what kind of app you are entering.
The lawsuit claims that Google Voice Assistant overheard conversations it shouldn’t have. And this recorded information was used in advertising. Users had no idea that their private conversations could be used this way! Complainants claim this is a serious breach of privacy. They argue that users should not have the right to listen to conversations or store information without permission.
Meanwhile, Google has denied all the allegations. However, the company has decided to settle earlier to avoid lengthy legal process and huge costs of litigation. Incidentally, in 2021, Apple also had to pay 95 million dollars for complaints against their voice assistant. Google, like other tech companies, has faced various privacy-related lawsuits in recent years. The tech giant agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the Texas state government last year. Allegations of breach of privacy were also raised in this case.
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