industry
AI Notetaker Lawsuits: Otter, Granola and Fireflies Tracker
Where the Otter.ai, Granola and Fireflies privacy lawsuits stand, with court, stage and next dates for each, plus Teams bot blocking and California's SB 690.
Reviewer
Marcus Webb
Privacy & Security Lead
Austin, TX · marcus@aimeetingassistantreviews.com
Background
About Marcus
Marcus is a former security engineer who worked on enterprise compliance at Cloudflare and CrowdStrike. He holds a CISSP certification and a Master's in Information Security from Georgia Tech. At this publication, he leads the privacy and data security evaluation for every product we review, examining data handling architectures, encryption practices, and compliance postures that most review sites overlook entirely.
Published Work
Articles by Marcus (11)
industry
Google AI Edge Foresight: Offline Meeting Notes on Mac
Google's experimental Foresight app takes meeting notes on a Mac with local Gemma models, even offline. What it is, and what it isn't yet.
industry
Granola's Lawsuit Tests the Bot-Free Privacy Argument
A July 2026 class action treats Granola's silent capture as a wiretap. It is early, and it applies the theory a federal judge let proceed against Otter to a tool that never joins the call.
industry
Otter.ai Lawsuit: The Ruling Every AI Notetaker Should Read
A federal judge let most privacy claims against Otter.ai proceed on 13 August 2026, reasoning that a notetaker vendor that keeps and uses recordings for itself can be a third-party eavesdropper.
guide
What Is On-Device AI? How to Tell If Your Notetaker Is
On-device usually means only the microphone capture is local. Here is the two-minute airplane test, the hardware that makes full on-device meeting AI possible, and which assistants pass.
industry
EU AI Act Emotion Recognition Ban and Meeting Tools
Is sentiment analysis in meeting tools banned in the EU? The AI Act's workplace emotion-recognition ban targets inference from biometric data such as voice, not sentiment scoring of a transcript.
guide
HIPAA-Compliant AI Notetakers for Healthcare (2026)
Which AI meeting assistants will sign a BAA, at what plan tier, and what each one does with PHI.
industry
Does Your AI Notetaker Train on Your Data? 2026 Guide
Otter, Granola and Fathom train on de-identified meeting data by default. Which notetakers don't, how to opt out, and where each stores your data.
guide
AI Meeting Assistants for Law Firms After Heppner
Heppner held a defendant's consumer-AI chats were not privileged. What law firms should require from an AI meeting assistant: no training, isolation and counsel-directed use.
editorial
Why We Ranked Hedy #1 for 2026
How our 13-criteria weighted formula puts Hedy first at 4.7 out of 5, and the criteria where Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Read.ai and Granola beat it.
industry
Do AI Meeting Bots Make Meetings Awkward?
A visible notetaker bot makes people more guarded, and bot-free capture removes that signal but puts the duty to tell people on you.