PrivacyHigh
Fireflies.AI Meeting Assistant Allegedly Collected Biometric Voice Data from Illinois Meeting Participant Without Consent
- Occurred
- Nov 18, 2025
- Published
- Jan 23, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Fireflies.AI
- AI transcription technology developers
Deployers
- Western Illinois Dreamers
- Organizations
- AI transcription tool users
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- People recorded without consent
- Katelin Cruz
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Lawsuit alleges unauthorized biometric data collection without consent under Illinois BIPA.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8