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People recorded without consent

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 16504 Report
Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

2025-02-24

In February 2025, Otter.ai's Notetaker reportedly recorded and transcribed a Zoom conversation involving Justin Brewer, a San Jacinto, California resident who was not an Otter account holder, without his informed consent. Brewer later alleged that Otter obtained and retained his meeting communications and used captured data to train its speech-recognition and machine-learning systems.

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Incident 16514 Report
Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

2025-11-18

On November 18, 2025, Fireflies.AI reportedly recorded and analyzed the voice of Illinois resident Katelin Cruz during a virtual meeting hosted by Western Illinois Dreamers, although Cruz had no Fireflies account and had not provided written consent. Her lawsuit alleges the system used speaker-recognition functions to create and retain biometric voice data and attribute statements to her in the meeting transcript.

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Incident 16524 Report
Granola AI Notetaker Allegedly Captured and Transcribed Florida Meeting Participant Without Notice or Consent

2026-07-30

Tarra Chamberlain, a Florida resident, alleged that Granola captured and transcribed her speech during a virtual meeting without her knowledge or consent after another participant used the AI notetaker. Her July 2026 lawsuit further alleged that Granola uses meeting data to improve its AI models by default, while non-user participants have no comparable opt-out.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Otter.ai users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

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Entity

Otter.ai

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

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Entity

AI transcription tool users

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

AI transcription technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Justin Brewer

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

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Entity

Employees

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

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Entity

Otter Notetaker

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

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Entity

AI transcription tools

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1650
    4 Reports

    Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training

  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Western Illinois Dreamers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Organizations

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Fireflies.AI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Katelin Cruz

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Biometric data subjects

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Fireflies.AI meeting assistant

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Biometric voice modeling

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1651
    4 Reports

    Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent

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Entity

Granola

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1652
    4 Reports

    Granola AI Notetaker Allegedly Captured and Transcribed Florida Meeting Participant Without Notice or Consent

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1652
    4 Reports

    Granola AI Notetaker Allegedly Captured and Transcribed Florida Meeting Participant Without Notice or Consent

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Tarra Chamberlain

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1652
    4 Reports

    Granola AI Notetaker Allegedly Captured and Transcribed Florida Meeting Participant Without Notice or Consent

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