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Lopez Voice Assistant Class Action Settlement

If you owned or purchased a Siri-enabled device and experienced an unintended Siri activation during a confidential or private communication between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024, you should read this Notice as it may impact your legal rights

Name: {redacted}
Claimant Identification Code: {redacted}
Confirmation Code: {redacted}

A settlement has been reached with Apple Inc. (“Apple”) in a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of current or former owners or purchasers of a Siri-enabled iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, iMac, HomePod, iPod touch, or Apple TV (“Siri Device/Devices”) whose confidential or private communications were allegedly obtained by Apple and/or shared with third parties as a result of an unintended Siri activation. Apple denies all of the allegations made in the lawsuit and denies that Apple did anything improper or unlawful. The proposed Settlement is not an admission of guilt or wrongdoing of any kind by Apple. The United States District Court for the Northern District of California approved this notice.

Why am I receiving this notice?

Apple’s records indicate that you may be a member of the Settlement Class and may be entitled to receive a payment. You are a member of the Settlement Class if you are a current or former owner or purchaser of a Siri Device, you reside in the United States or its territories, and your confidential or private communications were obtained by Apple and/or were shared with third parties as a result of an unintended Siri activation between September 17, 2014 to December 31, 2024. Under the terms of the Settlement, you are eligible to submit a Claim Form to receive a payment if the Court approves the Settlement and it becomes final.

What does the Settlement provide?

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million into a settlement fund. After deducting Court-approved attorneys’ fees and expenses, Service Awards, and the costs of notice and settlement administration (including any taxes), payments will be made from the Net Settlement Amount to Settlement Class Members who submit a valid and timely Claim Form. For more information about how distributions will be made to Settlement Class Members, please visit http://www.LopezVoiceAssistantSettlement.com.

What are the expected payments?

Settlement Class Members may submit claims for up to five Siri Devices on which they claim to have experienced an unintended Siri activation during a conversation intended to be confidential or private. Settlement Class Members who submit valid claims shall receive a pro rata portion of the Net Settlement Amount for a Class Payment up to a cap of $20 per Siri Device. The amount available to Settlement Class Members will increase or decrease pro rata depending on the total number of valid claims submitted, and Siri Devices claimed. The final amount will not be known until all claims are evaluated. The plan of allocation is described in detail in the Settlement Agreement available at http://www.LopezVoiceAssistantSettlement.com. Depending on the total number of valid claims, this Plan of Allocation is subject to modification by agreement of the Parties without further notice to members of the Settlement Class, provided any such modification is approved by the Court.

How do I file a claim?

In order to receive a payment, you must complete and submit a valid Claim Form by July 2, 2025. You may submit claims for up to five Siri Devices. Claims may be submitted online at http://www.LopezVoiceAssistantSettlement.com or mailed to the address on the form. If you submit a Claim Form by mail, it must be post-marked by July 2, 2025. The Claim Form requires that you confirm or update your current contact information and confirm the following under oath: from September 17, 2014 to December 31, 2024, (i) you purchased or owned a Siri Device in the United States or its territories and enabled Siri on that device, (ii) you experienced an unintended Siri activation, and (iii) the unintended Siri activation you experienced occurred during a conversation intended to be confidential or private.

You can access the Claim Form on http://www.LopezVoiceAssistantSettlement.com. If you received an email or postcard with a Claimant Identification Code and Confirmation Code notifying you about the Settlement, use these codes when making a claim. If you did not receive an email or postcard about the Settlement and don’t have a Claimant Identification Code and Confirmation Code, but believe you are a member of the Settlement Class, you may still make a claim by going to http://www.LopezVoiceAssistantSettlement.com and following the instructions on how to submit a Claim Form. You may elect to receive payment by physical check, electronic check, or Automated Clearing House (“ACH,” a/k/a direct deposit). If you do not complete and submit a valid Claim Form, you will not receive a payment.

For more information and to review the full notice, please visit http://www.LopezVoiceAssistantSettlement.com.

What are my other options?

You can do nothing, exclude yourself or object. If you do nothing, your rights will be affected and you won’t get a payment. If you don’t want to be legally bound by the Settlement Agreement, you must exclude yourself from it by July 2, 2025. Unless you exclude yourself, you will not be able to sue or continue to sue Apple for any claim arising out of or related to the claims in this case. If you stay in the Settlement (i.e., do not exclude yourself), you may object to it or ask for permission for you or your own lawyer to appear and speak at the Final Approval Hearing – at your own cost – but you do not have to do so.

A copy of Plaintiffs’ Counsel’s Motion for Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses and for Service Awards will be available at http://www.LopezVoiceAssistantSettlement.com by May 28, 2025. You can object to the requested award of attorneys’ fees and expenses to Plaintiffs’ Counsel or Service Awards to the Class Representatives.

Objections to the Settlement, attorneys’ fees, and/or Service Awards and requests to appear are due by July 2, 2025. The Final Approval Hearing will be held on August 1, 2025, at 9:00 a.m., at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Oakland Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Courtroom 5 – 2nd Floor, Oakland, CA 94612.

More information about your options is in the detailed notice available at http://www.LopezVoiceAssistantSettlement.com, or you may contact the Settlement Administrator with any questions:

Lopez Voice Assistant Settlement Administrator
P.O. Box 6609
614 Cranbury Rd
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
1-888-981-4106
[email protected]

You may also access the docket in this case through the Court’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system at https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov, or by visiting the office of the Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California at any of the Court’s locations between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Court holidays.

PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE COURT OR THE COURT CLERK’S OFFICE TO INQUIRE ABOUT THIS SETTLEMENT

BY ORDER OF THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA.

Last edited by Cornflake on 13 May 2025, 5:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.: Redacted personally identifying information

It seems straight forward. What part don't you understand?

Do you have an Apple device Kitty? An iPhone? Or did you have one between 2014 and 2024?

If not then delete the email and forget it.

If you did then basically the email is saying that Apple are going to give money to people who think Siri (the voice assistant on Apple devices) may have been listening to their conversations when it wasn't meant to be.

If you think that's true for you, and you want to claim the money you have to follow the link in the email and fill out a form.

For every device and every claim they'll pay out a maximum of $20.

I guess if you have a lot of devices or think you can make lots of claims, you could get a decent payout.

I don't know how much work you'd have to do to prove each claim.

Personally, I wouldn't bother. It sounds like a lot of hassle for very little reward, but there's a point of principle here too if you don't like Apple intruding on your privacy.

So you don't have to do anything if you don't want to.

Last year I got an Amazon gift-card from a class action zoom lawsuit. I had received a similar type of email as Kitty the year before. A quick google search confirmed there was a lawsuit going on & the email was potentially legit. I didn't have to provide a lot of personal info, mostly info that could probably be found on most people seach sites. I'm not sure if Kitty's email is legit or not. I'm just saying there's a chance it could be & hopefully not a lot of personal info would need to be given out. It's always good to be cautious, especially with these types of emails.

^ Yeah, I would question the legitimacy of an email like this as it could potentially just be a ploy to gain personal information.

If it turns out the lawsuit or whatever is real, then as DHB mentioned, claiming would yield very little reward. I mean $20, really?

I wouldn't even go there if I were you.

It's not a hoax, it's been in the news.

If she bought an Apple product she's a member of a class action suit and is entitled to money because those Apple products were caught spying.

Ah right, I must have missed this particular news story.

$20 to give ones personal details away seems a bit flimsy, still? I know $20 is only for one device but the period of time for when people were eligible only spanned a few months anyway, so it was probably only one device for Kitty.

What personal details?

They need her Claimant Code and Confirmation ##, which implies they already have the required personal details.

Possibly a home address and details of how to receive a payment? The latter might be different in the United States to where I am from, but a lot of payments are made by paying directly to a bank account over here. Cheques or 'checks' are sort of obsolete now.

They almost certainly have her payment information and address on file already from when she purchased and registered the device.

It's too late to freak out over sharing information that's already been shared.

They also specify she has the option to receive a cheque.

Do you mean Apple already have her payment information?

Are Apple going to be the ones paying out the settlement or perhaps a third party is involved, in which case, giving the third party information would be an extra step of information release? I suppose though that Apple could be sharing their customer details with whoever is handling the settlement payments? I'm not privy to exactly how this works.

With my Zoom class action they had said I would get a check mailed but the check didn't come & I didn't hear anything else about it when I should have heard something in email/the postal mail. Like half a year after I got an email wanting me to chose how to receive my payment & I chose & an Amazon online giftcard which was an amount a little higher than they said the check might be.

https://www.lopezvoiceassistantsettlement.com/

That site has more details.

I think you're overly paranoid about the risks associated with taking advantage of being included in a class action suit, like it's not quite legitimate somehow.

I wouldn't risk it there is a good chance it might be a scam.

I think that this paranoia is probably born out of a lack of experience in dealing with class action suits. The fear of the unknown perhaps?

It's also relared to hacking in the news, commercials for idenity theft protection, & LOTS & LOTS of phishing emails being sent out, I receive multiple phishing emails every simgle day. It's very good to be cautious about these types of emails.