Dictation and transcription
Fireflies.ai privacy rating
Cloud AI meeting assistant that joins video calls as a bot or records through its apps, then transcribes, summarizes and searches the conversations. It also offers dictation.
Summary
Fireflies.ai scores 31 out of 100 (grade F) on the dictation and transcription criteria. It meets 2 of 10 criteria: TLS configuration and no training on recordings. It partly meets no ads or data sales, independent audit and security headers. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, transparency report, tells users about requests and runs on the device. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B.
Score 31 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The website loads Google tags, and the policy describes third-party analytics and ad-targeting cookies and pixels.
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Partial
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by subscriptions, but personal data is shared with advertising partners to target Fireflies ads, which the policy says may count as a sale.
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Partial
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
SOC 2 Type II compliance is claimed, but the report is only available through the Trust Center.
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No
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
No transparency report or government request policy is published.
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No
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
No published policy on notifying users about data requests.
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No
Runs on the device Weight 3 of 3
Is speech converted to text on the device, without sending audio to a server?
Recordings are transcribed on Fireflies servers and by its speech-to-text providers.
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Yes
No training on recordings Weight 2 of 3
Are recordings and transcripts kept out of model training by default?
The policy states personal information is not used for AI model training and vendors are barred from training on it.
Automated tests
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Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A+
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Partial
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade B (75/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.