Apple CEO Tim Cook Worries Losing Privacy Could Change People's Behavior

Hyperbole?  Agree? Apple CEO Tim Cook Worries Losing Privacy Could Change People's Behavior "If we begin to feel like we're being surveilled all the time, our behavior changes. We do less, we think less, we change how we think. In a world like that we restrain ourselves and it changes societ https://time.com/6184453/tim-cook-privacy-time100-summit/?utm_source=sg&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-8114

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Talk to Apple’s Siri in the past decade? Tens of millions of people stand to gain up to $20 per Siri-enabled device for potentially having their privacy violated. Apple agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit saying that the company routinely recorded people’s conversations and disclosed it to advertisers after users unintentionally activated the assistant. Despite settling, Apple denied wrongdoing.

As Reuters pointed out, the entire settlement is equivalent to about nine hours of profit for Apple, which brought in nearly $94 billion in net income last year.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-pay-95-million-settle-siri-privacy-lawsuit-2025-01-02/

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Talk to Apple’s Siri in the past decade? Tens of millions of people stand to gain up to $20 per Siri-enabled device for potentially having their privacy violated. Apple agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit saying that the company routinely recorded people’s conversations and disclosed it to advertisers after users unintentionally activated the assistant. Despite settling, Apple denied wrongdoing.  As Reuters pointed out, the entire settlement is equivalent to about nine hours of profit for Apple, which brought in nearly $94 billion in net income last year.  https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-pay-95-million-settle-siri-privacy-lawsuit-2025-01-02/   #Digital Wellness 📱🧘

Apple agreed to pay $95 million in cash to settle a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violated users' privacy.

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