By Emily Long
Publication Date: 2026-06-04 18:30:00
If you have (or had) a device equipped with Google Assistant, you may be eligible for some cash as part of a recent $68 million settlement—but you’ll need to check your spam folder to find the notice.
As Android Authority reports, settlement notices are seemingly being filtered into spam folders, so many users who are eligible to submit claims are likely to miss them. I, too, received this notice in my spam folder several days ago with the subject line “Google Assistant Privacy Litigation Settlement.” It does look like spam, but the notice is legitimate.
What is the Google settlement for?
This specific Google settlement (as there have been others in recent months and years) stems from a lawsuit alleging that Google Assistant was activated and recording users’ conversations without a spoken wake word or phrase like “Okay Google” (or manual activation by the user). Google Assistant could be pre-installed or downloaded on both Google-made devices (like Google Home…