Many of us use Apple products, so I just want to share in case anyone impacted by this issue hasn’t seen this yet.
If you owned or purchased a Siri-enabled device and experienced an unintended Siri activation during a confidential or private communication between September 17, 2014 and December 31, 2024, you should read this Notice as it may impact your legal rights
Thanks. I have a couple iPads, but don’t think I’ve ever used Siri, at least not in saying, “Siri…” , nor have we used it for communication, either verbal or written. And if the settlement “excludes Apple; any entity in which Apple has a controlling interest; Apple’s directors, officers, and employees; Apple’s legal representatives, successors, and assigns,” who’s actually paying the settlement? For $20, max $100 (if you have the limited 5 Apple products), it doesn’t really seem worth all the hassle for me.
I’d definitely be much more interested in a class action lawsuit filed against all the spam callers. I get at least 6-10 a day. I have literally a list of hundreds of numbers that have been blocked on my phone, many with the same voice message but different numbers. Being on the “no-call list” doesn’t help whatsoever. If I could get $20 for each number, I’d be rich!
The no-call list is only effective with companies that care. After the equifax leak every person in the US who has a credit history had all their information stolen and they spamming skyrocketed. There was a lawsuit for that as well, but for Equifax it was barely a dent in their cost of doing business 
It’s almost as if they have successfully offloaded the cost of failing to protect the non-consensual dossiers they collected on all of us back onto us …
I went to Verizon today to see if I had a setting on my phone wrong or something, that the calls continue to come. I have a Samsung S24 Ultra, and I do have it set to block all unknown numbers, so they couldn’t help. So I’ll just continue to block. 
I need to start buckling down again and reporting spam calls. I haven’t done it for a long time. Someone was trying to apply for a loan in my name, but luckily I have a fraud hold with the credit agencies, so it was not approved. Now I need to go research when that hold ends (after a year I think but I don’t remember when I added it) so I can do another one. I wish I could do one indefinitely.
Well I just found that the guy at Verizon must have done something to my phone, because I’ve just had two “pings” and thought they were messages, but it was a different tone. When I checked, I see that there are two “Blocked by spam filter” on my notifications! Yay!
Nice!
Several weeks ago I was driving and was in a hurry and some place kept calling me about the loan I applied for. I told them I didn’t apply for any loan, that it was a scam. He insisted that I had because they only take applications online on their website. I kept trying to tell him no, and they kept calling me. I stopped answering of course, but I got text messages for like 2 weeks straight asking me to go fill out info online. Finally this week I got a letter telling me my loan was denied because they couldn’t verify my identity. At least it’s working as it should, but it was so annoying. You would think that me telling them I didn’t apply would have been enough. 
There is a government mandated free option with all the agencies that stays on until you remove it.
They hide it very well with mentions of their paid version pushed to the forefront, but it’s there.
The people pushing those loan scams (and many others) are not US-based and have no regard for the do-not-call registry.
I get roughly 50 calls or texts per week from them. Blocking the number is of no use, because they are using internet calling from random numbers every time.
So if I’m in a good mood, I’ll answer and speak to a “loan approval officer” (some dumb idiot in mid-Asia) and keep them on the line as long as possible, feeding them fake information.
My cousin is the absolute best at doing this. He kept one on for hours when the big family was having Thanksgiving dinner. He took them throughout huge conversation, leading them down this whole trail and acting interested, put the phone down for a while, came back, etc then told them he wasn’t interested. (I can’t remember what they were selling but it was like something that didn’t even apply to him lol) I could never do it as well as him 
This call I had sounded American. I’ve had my info leaked and a few times people have tried to get stuff in my name. This place was Helpful Lending.
@deirdrebeth ok, I thought it used to be that way. But when I put this hold on there it looked like it was my only free option. I’ll check it out. Thank you!
From last year:
I’ve had so many conversations where Siri activated itself (I almost said herself lol). I uninstalled it on all of my devices and somehow it got turned back on again. (It is off now, at least, but ugh.)
I have three apple devices. After every system update, I go thru the system settings and ensure anything related to Siri is disabled. I can look up info on DuckDuckGo just as quickly as someone can talk to Siri.
While I was in the states I never activated Location Assistance unless I needed it for directions. That was maybe five times I allowed it. Now I’m in Ukraine and use a taxi service (uklon) a lot. No car, and don’t intend to get one. The taxi service has to be able to find me even if I don’t know where I am.
If I go out on my bicycle I have it on as well. I’ll accept some loss of privacy in order to get help quickly if I need it.
I worked in the security industry for over three decades. I know precisely what happens to your personal information, wether you choose to share it or not. Even in Europe, where there are much stricter laws, your identity is tracked anywhere and everywhere you go. And that information is sold. If you are not paying for a service, you are the product. Regardless of settings on your phone, you are tracked everywhere you go. Look at how law-enforcement can use that information, it doesn’t matter whether you agree to it or not. That is the reality of this modern world.
I do like how law enforcement can use it though. It helped my husband track down a murderer when he was with the Sheriff’s Office years ago, even before today’s more modern technology. So it does have some benefits.
My phone has been working great at blocking a lot of the spam calls I get. And what’s even better is that it notifies me that a call was blocked, but the numbers don’t even show up on my call list, it just blocks and deletes them! I had 10 spam calls yesterday, and only two, which were different area codes than the usual spam calls from 315 and 518 area codes, did I have to block and delete myself. So the call filter is definitely helping.