Is Claude safe for work?
Low risk · 16Anthropic · AI assistants · facts (high-confidence)
Claude is low-risk for default at-work use (16/100): it trains on your data unless you opt out, and holds SOC 2 Type II.
16
Low risk
Watch out: Even when a consumer opts out of training, conversations flagged for safety review can still be retained up to two years and used to improve models without notifying the user.
Data and compliance facts
- Trains on consumer-tier data
- Opt-out
- Trains on business-tier data
- No
- Training opt-out available
- Yes
- SOC 2 Type II
- Yes
- ISO 27001
- Yes
- ISO 42001 (AI management)
- Yes
- GDPR Data Processing Addendum
- Yes
- HIPAA BAA
- Yes
- EU data residency
- Unverified
- SSO / SAML
- Yes
- Data retention
- Consumer: 30 days if training off, up to 5 years if training on; API inputs/outputs deleted after ~7 days and never used for training; safety-flagged content may be retained up to 2 years regardless of opt-out.
- Safer tier
- Claude Enterprise (Claude for Work)
Why it scores 16 out of 100
- +16Trains on your data. Training is on by default on the consumer tier; you must find and set the opt-out.