Is Google Gemini safe for work?
Low risk · 14Google · AI assistants · facts (high-confidence)
Google Gemini is low-risk for default at-work use (14/100): it trains on your data unless you opt out, and holds SOC 2 Type II.
14
Low risk
Watch out: Personal Gemini accounts have human reviewers reading a sample of chats (kept up to 3 years even after you delete activity), so confidential work content typed into a personal account can be seen by reviewers.
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
- Yes
- SSO / SAML
- Yes
- Data retention
- Consumer: default up to 18 months (configurable 3-36 months) tied to Gemini Apps Activity, and human-reviewed chats disconnected from the account are kept up to 3 years; Workspace data follows the customer's standard Workspace retention/Vault.
- Safer tier
- Google Workspace with Gemini (Business/Enterprise)
Why it scores 14 out of 100
- +14Trains on your data unless you opt out. Training is on by default on the consumer tier; you must find and toggle the opt-out.