{"id":18264,"date":"2026-01-27T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/google-settles-for-68-million-after-lawsuit-claimed-it-secretly-recorded-users\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:22:14","slug":"google-settles-for-68-million-after-lawsuit-claimed-it-secretly-recorded-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/google-settles-for-68-million-after-lawsuit-claimed-it-secretly-recorded-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Google settles for $68 million after lawsuit claimed it secretly recorded users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users reportedly complained the were targeted with ads based on things they had said, even when they hadn&#8217;t activated their smart devices&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/5707309-google-settles-for-68-million-after-lawsuit-claimed-it-secretly-recorded-users\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users reportedly complained the were targeted with ads based on things they had said, even when they hadn&#8217;t activated their smart devices&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}