Google Calendar privacy rating

Summary

Google Calendar scores 10 out of 100 (grade F) on the calendars criteria. It partly meets independent audit. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry and no ads or data sales. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act.

Score 10 out of 100. How scoring works

Criteria

• ✖No

  Open source ×3Weight 3 of 3

  Is all the source code needed to run the product public?

  Closed source.

• ✖No

  No trackers or telemetry ×3Weight 3 of 3

  Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?

  Google collects activity data across its services and uses it for analytics and personalized ads.

  policies.google.com

• ✖No

  No ads or data sales ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?

  Free for personal accounts and funded by Google's advertising business, which uses activity data across services.

  policies.google.com

• ◐Partial

  Independent audit ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

  Google Workspace, which includes Calendar, has third-party SOC 2 audits. Only the SOC 3 summary report is public.

  cloud.google.com