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.
Otter has filed its answer and a 2027 class-certification schedule. Granola and Fireflies are still at the pleading stage. Teams is rolling out bot blocking, and California's CIPA reform left the wiretap claims untouched.
Google's experimental Foresight app captures meetings on a Mac and runs Gemma models locally, even with no internet. It is the biggest vote yet for on-device meeting AI, and it is still an experiment.
A July class action treats Granola's silent capture as a wiretap. The case is early, the theory is the same one a federal judge just let proceed against Otter, and it lands hardest on tools that keep a copy of the meeting.
On 13 August a federal judge let most of the privacy claims against Otter.ai proceed — and the reasoning applies to almost every meeting assistant on the market, not just Otter.
Half the meeting assistants on the market now claim to run on your device. Most of them mean something much narrower than you think. Here is how to tell the difference in about two minutes.
The EU AI Act reached general applicability on 2 August 2026, and a lot of coverage claimed sentiment analysis in meeting tools is now illegal. That is not quite right — and the real rule is narrower, older, and more interesting.
For clinicians, a signed BAA and tight data handling are non-negotiable. Here are the AI meeting assistants that actually support HIPAA workflows in 2026.
Several popular AI notetakers train their models on your meetings by default. Here is who does it, how to opt out, and why on-device tools sidestep the problem entirely.
A February 2026 ruling changed how law firms should evaluate AI meeting tools. Here's what actually meets the new bar.
Our methodology, our reasoning, and why Hedy earned the top spot in our rankings.
That 'Fireflies.ai Notetaker has joined' notification changes the dynamic. Here's why it matters.
Why the future of meeting intelligence is moving from the cloud to your device.
If your meetings involve sensitive information, not all AI assistants are created equal.