AI incident #1650 ·
Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training
What happened
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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News reports (4)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Otter.Ai Users, Otter.Ai, Ai Transcription Tool Users
- Alleged developer
- Otter.Ai, Ai Transcription Technology Developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Privacy, People Recorded Without Consent, Otter.Ai Users, Justin Brewer, Employees
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