Apple just agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging Siri secretly eavesdropped on iPhone users’ conversations and then passed the recorded chit-chat to advertisers (e.g. “Wait, we were just talking about chia pets and now I’m getting ads for them all over my feed!”).
Apple has not acknowledged any wrongdoing in settling the suit. If the settlement is approved by the court, you could be entitled to a payout of $20—a nominal financial sum, but a priceless vindication for anyone mocked for insisting their phone was listening to them.
Here’s something else worth listening to: Fortune is hosting its annual in Las Vegas, in prelude to the CES trade show. Guest speakers include Mark Cuban, entrepreneur and cofounder of Cost Plus Drugs; Teddy Bekele, chief technology officer at Land O’Lakes; Sagar Mehta, chief technology officer at OpenTable; and Lauri Palmieri, senior vice president of solution engineering at Salesforce. If you’re interesting in joining Data Sheet’s Andrew Nusca and guests at the dinner on Jan. 6, just. —Alexei Oreskovic
Mark Zuckerberg is making a big change to his government affairs team ahead of Trump’s inauguration, with top policy point person.
Clegg, a former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister who joined the company in 2018 and lauched the company’s oversight board, will be replaced by Joel Kaplan, a VP who once served as former U.S. President George W. Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff.
