Fact · Voice privacy and security
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The settlements, fines and lawsuits over voice recordings dataset draws on 13 distinct sources.
Calculated from 13 data points on October 19, 2026
- How it is calculated
- Count of the distinct sources behind the dataset's 13 rows: 13.
A statistic of the dataset Voice Recording Privacy Settlements and Fines, calculated by code from its published rows.
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- Spain's data protection agency fined a company 5,000 euros for recording a customer's conversation without warning the customer or getting consent, as a legal news site reported on 4 February 2022.
- The Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH) filed a complaint and report with the Paris prosecutor against Apple over Siri recordings made without consent.
- Amazon agreed to a permanent injunction and a $25 million civil penalty, in a settlement with the FTC and DOJ over alleged COPPA and FTC Act violations relating to Alexa.
- Reuters reported in January 2025 that Apple agreed to pay $95 million in cash to settle a proposed class action claiming Siri violated users' privacy.
- Cox Media Group agreed to pay $880,000 to settle FTC charges that it falsely claimed to offer active listening ad targeting to small businesses.
- In a 1 August 2012 decision on call center workers and quality checks, Italy's data protection authority declared unlawful the processing of the data at issue, which included recordings of a call center's phone calls.
- In its 26 August 2019 press release, the Hamburg data protection authority said that having contractors or staff review audio excerpts from voice assistants to improve them, without additional informed consent, violates users' data protection rights.
- In January 2023, an Illinois state court gave preliminary approval to a settlement of nearly $300,000 in a class action against Whole Foods, which the plaintiffs said collected warehouse workers' voiceprints through headsets under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
- In January 2026, Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class action that accused it of illegally recording private conversations through Google Assistant. Google denied wrongdoing.
- In a 2026 decision, Kenya's Data Protection Commissioner found that Liquid Telecommunications Kenya recorded a complainant's personal data on an exit consultation call without his consent, and ordered the company to pay the complainant Sh700,000 (in Kenyan shillings).
- Otter.ai, Inc. is the defendant in a consolidated class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California over its Otter Notetaker meeting assistant. The case is In re Otter.AI Privacy Litigation, No. 5:25-cv-06911-EKL, and the operative complaint is dated December 5, 2025.
- The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into Apple's Siri voice assistant, reported on October 6, 2025.
- In May 2025, Google agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle Texas privacy claims, and the Texas Attorney General alleged that Google's Nest and Google Assistant products captured voiceprints. The sum also covers a separate location-data suit, so the amount is not voice-only.