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A federal class action filed in August 2025 alleges that Otter.ai's Otter Notebook service, by default, does not ask meeting attendees for permission to record.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“by default does not ask meeting attendees for permission to record and fails to alert participants that recordings are shared with Otter to improve its artificial intelligence systems”
Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations, NPR, 2025, Main article.
Open the original- What it measures
- The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Otter says its privacy policy asks users for explicit permission before training on transcripts.
- What it does not show
- An allegation in a complaint, not a finding. Neither the plaintiff's lawyers nor Otter returned NPR's requests for comment.
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