Fact · Voice privacy and security
The plaintiffs in the Google Assistant lawsuit said Google had no right to use conversations for targeted advertising when Assistant misheard speech as a hot word.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“the plaintiffs said Google had no right to use their conversations for targeted advertising when Google Assistant misperceived what they said as hot words”
Google must face Voice Assistant privacy lawsuit, U.S. judge says, NBC News, NBC News, 2021, Plaintiffs' argument paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- False accepts are the device waking on a sound that is not the hot word, such as Hey Google or OK Google. The complaint covers recordings made after such a false accept.
- What it does not show
- These are the plaintiffs' allegations, as the court described them. Google denied wrongdoing.