Consumer Apps · Productivity (writing assistant) · Private litigation
Grammarly
Headline
Grammarly's 'Expert Review' feature (launched in beta in August 2025) offered AI-generated editing feedback explicitly attributed to REAL, NAMED journalists, academics and authors — including journalist Julia Angwin…
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
Grammarly's 'Expert Review' feature (launched in beta in August 2025) offered AI-generated editing feedback explicitly attributed to REAL, NAMED journalists, academics and authors — including journalist Julia Angwin — without asking them first. Angwin's proposed class action (filed March 2026 against Grammarly's parent, Superhuman, alleging privacy and right-of-publicity violations) alleges Grammarly attributed words and advice to people who never gave them — and Angwin said publicly she was surprised at how bad the advice was — meaning Grammarly wasn't just using her name without permission, it was putting words and professional judgment in her mouth that she never said and might not even agree with. Grammarly disabled the feature in March 2026 pending a redesign, and its CEO calls the legal claims without merit; the lawsuit’s current status was not verified this pass. Separately, Incogni's January 2026 study of 442 AI-powered Chrome extensions ranked Grammarly's extension (with QuillBot) as the most potentially privacy-damaging of the widely downloaded ones (while scoring malicious-use risk as low), collecting website content, personal communications, and activity data across whatever you're writing — not just inside Grammarly itself.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Case status. Private litigation; no sources are on file yet, so no legal tier is assigned.
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected.
Data sharing
STRUCTURAL FLAG WORTH NOTING: Grammarly's core function requires reading and analyzing the FULL TEXT of whatever a user is writing (emails, documents, messages) to provide suggestions — meaning by design, Grammarly's servers process a uniquely broad, often highly personal/sensitive slice of a user's written communications (medical questions to a doctor via a patient portal, legal correspondence, personal emails, etc.) compared to apps that only see metadata or limited inputs. Not independently confirmed with a specific named lawsuit this pass, but the category of risk (full-content analysis, not just metadata) is structurally distinct from most other apps in this tracker.
Fees and billing
Not itemized this pass.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy policy grammarly.com/privacy-policy | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service grammarly.com/terms | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.