ChatGPT now keeps all its privacy settings in one place

OpenAI's new Privacy Center puts memory, data use, connected apps and account security on one page, for personal plans and ChatGPT Business.

OpenAI has added a Privacy Center to ChatGPT. It started rolling out on 21 September to signed-in Free, Go, Plus and Pro users, and to ChatGPT Business users on the same day.

The Privacy Center collects information about chat privacy, memory, personalisation, data use, connected apps and account security, with links to the settings that control each one. On the web you open it from the account menu, under Help. On the phone apps it sits in Settings. OpenAI says availability depends on your plan and region, and on workspace settings, so not everyone will see it yet.

This page does not change any settings. What it gives you is one place to see them. For a business, the useful part is the list of connected apps and the memory controls. ChatGPT can connect to email and calendar accounts, and people tend to switch these on one at a time and forget about them. Now you can see in one place what ChatGPT can reach and what it has remembered.

Ask everyone who uses ChatGPT for work to open the Privacy Center and spend five minutes on it. Start with the connected apps and remove any that are no longer used. Then look at what memory has saved, and turn on multi-factor authentication if it is off. If you are on ChatGPT Business, your workspace admin still sets the rules. This page shows each person what they have switched on themselves.

It is a small release, and it makes a routine check much quicker to do.