Is Fireflies.ai safe to use?
Fireflies.ai is reasonably secure: it encrypts data, says it never trains AI models on your content, and offers a DPA. The catch is visibility: its default Notetaker joins calls as a visible bot, and in a team workspace admins can access the meetings their members record unless privacy is configured. Reline has no bot at all and is private by default.
We're aligned on the rollout date — what's the gating risk on the auth flow?
The refresh-token edge case. Once that's covered we can ship to the pilot cohort.
Send me the failure modes before EOD and I'll bake them into the test matrix.
Will do — pairing with the platform team tomorrow morning to align on the schema...
Fireflies.ai is reasonably secure: it encrypts data, says it never trains AI models on your content, and offers a DPA. The catch is visibility: its default Notetaker joins calls as a visible bot, and in a team workspace admins can access the meetings their members record unless privacy is configured. Reline has no bot at all and is private by default.
The details
- Fireflies encrypts transcripts at rest (AES-256) and in transit, states it does not train AI models on your meeting content, and enforces zero data retention with third-party processors.
- The default visibility is broader than many expect: in a workspace, admins can see meetings recorded by team members unless each user sets per-meeting or default privacy controls.
- By default Fireflies joins the call as a visible Fireflies Notetaker. Its bot-free desktop mode avoids that, but its own guide says the mode saves no audio or video file and labels speakers Speaker 1 and Speaker 2.
- Reline is private by default — no one can see a note without an explicit grant — records bot-free on your own device, and never uses your audio or transcripts to train third-party models.
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Last updated June 2026
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