Siri class action lawsuit greenlit, billions at stake

A judge has cleared the way for as many as 3 million Apple device users in Illinois to be included in a class action lawsuit accusing Apple of violating Illinois’ stringent biometrics privacy law by allegedly recording people using their Siri A.I. assistant, putting potentially hundreds of billions of dollars at stake.

On Jan. 29, Cook County Circuit Judge Michael T. Mullen agreed to certify the plaintiffs’ class, clearing the lawsuit to proceed as a class action.

The lawsuit dates to 2019, when attorneys from the firms of Miller Shakman Levine & Feldman, of Chicago; Forde & O’Meara, of Chicago; and Silver Golub & Teitell, of Stamford, Connecticut, filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court against the Cupertino, California-based tech giant.

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