Illinois BIPA Suit Targets AI Note‑Takers: Practical Lessons For Meeting Transcription

Another class action lawsuit—Cruz v. Fireflies.AI Corp.—puts a spotlight on potential legal risks associated with AI meeting assistants. The complaint alleges that the Fireflies tool records, analyzes, transcribes, and stores voices of meeting participants, including voices of those who are not Fireflies users, without the notice, written consent, and retention safeguards required by Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA"). It points to Fireflies' "speaker recognition" functionality and contends the product creates and retains voiceprints—covered under BIPA—while lacking a publicly available retention and destruction policy and failing to inform meeting participants about biometric collection. This case is a useful preview of issues regulators and plaintiffs may raise around AI transcription and summarization. We have previously covered other lawsuits involving these issues here.