How to keep Otter from automatically recording your meetings

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Otter.ai is one of the more popular machine-powered transcription apps - and it's easy to see why. Its algorithms do a good job of transcribing speech, including differentiating and identifying the people speaking. And if you use its Otter Assistant feature, it will attach to your calendar and automatically transcribe Zoom, Teams, and Meet meetings that are on that calendar - even if you don't attend.

While that could be handy - if your boss asks you what happened at a meeting, you can have the info even if you were playing Wordle at the time - it could also be a problem. For example, what if you forgot (or didn't notice) that the automatic function was on, and it recorded a meeting that might contain sensitive information or was...

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