Apple Inc. will pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit over allegations the company collected and shared private information overheard in accidental Siri activations.

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Apple has reached a $95 million settlement in a class action lawsuit involving users of Siri-enabled devices purchased over the span of a decade. The agreement, filed in California in January, aims to resolve claims that Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, was used to secretly record users’ private conversations, according to the Associated Press.