OpenAI has reaffirmed Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers while previewing Private Safety Processing, a system designed to strengthen safeguards for increasingly capable frontier models. The technology analyzes patterns across related interactions without giving OpenAI personnel access to underlying customer content.
For ZDR deployments, data can remain on customer-controlled infrastructure. OpenAI is also developing storage using customer-controlled encryption keys. When automated systems detect potential misuse, OpenAI receives only a limited safety signal rather than prompts or responses.
Private Safety Processing is currently being tested with early customers, with rollout and a technical white paper planned for September 2026.
