A proposed class action filed July 30, 2026, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Granola, the venture-backed AI meeting notetaker, of intercepting and recording virtual conversations without the knowledge of most participants, then feeding those recordings into its own AI model training by default. The complaint, Chamberlain v. Granola, Inc. and Granola Labs Ltd., was brought by Tarra Chamberlain, a Florida resident, on behalf of a proposed nationwide class and a California subclass. It names Granola, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Granola Labs Ltd., a United Kingdom software-development entity incorporated on March 3, 2023. Christopher Pedregal and Sam Stephenson, Granola's founders, have served as the UK entity's only directors since its formation. Chamberlain's attorneys, from Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP in San Francisco and Lowey Dannenberg, P.C. in White Plains, New York, filed the case as Case No. 3:26-cv-07926-EMC. The complaint seeks a jury trial and asserts seven separate claims, alleging the tool captured private conversations and used them to improve its commercial product without most speakers knowing. Granola's software automatically joins scheduled video calls on platforms including Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams, and can capture in-person conversations. It pulls audio from the user's microphone and system audio output, transcribing calls through any internet calling application, with