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Otter.ai Notetaker Allegedly Recorded Meeting Conversations Without Participants' Informed Consent and Used Data for AI Training
- Occurred
- Feb 24, 2025
- Published
- Aug 18, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Otter.ai
- AI transcription technology developers
Deployers
- Otter.ai users
- Otter.ai
- AI transcription tool users
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- People recorded without consent
- Otter.ai users
- Justin Brewer
- Employees
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Unauthorized recording and data usage for AI training without consent constitutes a privacy violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8