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Apple is writing checks. The company has opened claims in its two hundred fifty million dollar Siri settlement, covering US customers who bought an iPhone fifteen Pro, fifteen Pro Max, or any iPhone sixteen model between June tenth, twenty twenty four and March twenty ninth, twenty twenty five. If that's you, head to the settlement website and file.
Meanwhile, Google is on the receiving end of a penalty. Ireland's data protection commission has fined the search giant four hundred three million euros over how it handled location data. It's the latest in a long string of European enforcement actions, and a reminder that regulators there continue to treat data privacy as a line worth defending with real money.
And Amazon has drawn its own line, blocking Meta's new Muse AI shopping agent from accessing its store. Amazon reportedly asked Meta first to rein the bot in, got no response it was satisfied with, and then simply cut off access. It raises a pointed question about who gets to send an agent into someone else's marketplace, and on whose terms.
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