There's a small, but strong team of engineers behind this and I'm the primary investor. I created this specifically to be as privacy conscious as possible. > Are there other, more privacy oriented transcription services anyone can recommend? I only stopped it by disabling the Google Calendar integration they had had prior, which was only to suggest which meeting to link recordings to, and not the new 'Otter Assistant' feature that automatically joins meetings. To no avail, as the Otter bot started to invade my meetings after that. So when I looked at my otter.ai account after that I was exceptionally careful to not just click through the big blue 'Enable Otter Assistant' button and find the light grey 'Skip' button in the upper right. I thought she must have accidentally enabled a new feature. Normally I would agree with you - the same thing happened to my boss earlier in the day, the Otter bot joined a call before she did and she was baffled how it was there. > How many times has a user said they didn't configure something that way and when you checked they did and they were thinking about a different setting for something else? Realisitically, it's actually the most likely thing that happened.

This feature was and is disabled on my account. And he did have it configured to send out emails.

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