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Apple Siri Eavesdropping Payout–Here's Who's Eligible and How to Claim (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is the entire population of the US not automatically eligible in an eavesdropping case?

I don't have an iphone and thus no siri and thus no eligibility, but I'm constantly surrounded by those with iphones that apparently eavesdrop. Seems likely that a non-apple customer's conversion could have been caught in that drag net.

[–] juli 3 points 1 week ago

There are 2 things US government avoids.

Anger billionaires
Anger a cult following (with white majority)

Apple is both and this is just cost of doing business in the land of the free. The gov probably also gets inside access, while Apple does the "pro user" marketing, which every fan just accepts as gospel. Win-Win on both end