AI Notetaker Privacy: Why No Stored Audio Still Leaves a Record
Granola may not retain meeting audio, but transcripts and notes remain. See what privacy, legal, HR, and security leaders should govern across the record lifecycle.
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TL;DR:
AI notetaker privacy does not end when audio is not retained. Leaders should govern transcripts, sharing, retention, verification, and downstream use.
AI notetaker privacy does not end when audio is not retained. Leaders should govern transcripts, sharing, retention, verification, and downstream use.
What you need to know
- The change: A user must manually start Granola’s transcription. The application does not add a visible bot to a video call, but it can transcribe online and in-person meetings and retain the resulting transcript and notes.
- Who is affected: Privacy, security, legal, compliance, HR, labor-relations, records-management, and AI-governance leaders.
- Why it matters: “No stored audio” does not mean the conversation leaves no persistent record.
- What to do first: Identify which AI notetakers are in use, which account tiers and settings are approved, what records they retain, and which meeting categories require separate review.
- Key trigger: Any proposed use in a personnel, legal, investigation, security, employee-complaint, or similarly sensitive conversation should receive a separate review before capture or transcription begins.
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