Every recorded change to how OpenAI handles ChatGPT data, newest first, each tied to a primary source.
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When ad personalization is available and on, past chats are used to make ads more relevant for Free and Go users.
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Account settings include controls over what data is used to personalize ads shown on the services.
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Teen users and a parent or guardian can link accounts so the adult can manage settings and receive safety alerts.
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A federal district judge denied OpenAI's objections and affirmed orders requiring production of 20 million de-identified ChatGPT conversation logs.
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An attacker exported data from analytics vendor Mixpanel, including names, emails, and approximate locations of some OpenAI API users; chats were not exposed.
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A federal magistrate judge ordered OpenAI to produce 20 million de-identified consumer ChatGPT logs to news plaintiffs in the copyright litigation.
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A court-approved stipulation ended OpenAI’s ongoing duty to preserve deleted ChatGPT output logs as of September 26, 2025; earlier logs stay, except EEA, Swiss and UK data, and listed-domain accounts remain preserved.
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A federal magistrate judge in Maine issued a warrant for OpenAI records of a user’s ChatGPT searches; the return shows it was executed the next day.
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Company post: human reviewers examine conversations flagged for planned harm to others, and OpenAI may refer imminent threats of serious physical harm to law enforcement.
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A federal magistrate judge ordered OpenAI to preserve and segregate all ChatGPT output log data that would otherwise be deleted, including at users' request.
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Italy's Garante fined OpenAI €15 million over ChatGPT's legal basis for training, transparency, and breach notification; a Rome court later upheld OpenAI's appeal.
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Temporary chats do not appear in history and are kept for up to 30 days for safety purposes.
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Enterprise or business-account administrators may access and control an account, and users can share conversations by link.
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Conversations started with chat history off are not used to train models and are kept 30 days for abuse review.
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Italy's Garante ordered an immediate temporary limitation on OpenAI's processing of Italian users' data and opened an inquiry into ChatGPT.
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A Redis library bug let some ChatGPT users see other users' chat titles and exposed payment details of 1.2% of active Plus subscribers.
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