Today we’re previewing Private Safety Processing, designed to let us keep offering Zero Data Retention while improving our safeguards. Even when benefiting from frontier intelligence, customers shouldn’t have to give up control of sensitive data.
For ZDR deployments, content stays on infrastructure the customer controls. Automated systems look for patterns across related interactions and return limited safety signals, without exposing the underlying prompts or responses to OpenAI employees (even me!).
We’re also developing an OpenAI-hosted option encrypted with customer-controlled keys. We’re testing this with early customers now and plan to begin rolling it out in September.
Zero Data Retention deployments can keep abuse safeguards without surfacing prompt content to the provider, which is relevant if data-handling requirements previously ruled out OpenAI's safety tooling.
