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Comparing OpenAI vs Anthropic · Data Retention provisions
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Compare data retention governance provisions between OpenAI and Anthropic. Provisions are extracted from monitored governance documents and classified by severity.

ai OpenAI OpenAI must return or delete Customer Data after termination
High
What it means
This clause establishes that Customer Data does not automatically disappear upon termination—it depends on Customer instruction—and that legal retention obligations can override the return or deletion obligation.
Consumer impact
Customers must actively instruct OpenAI to return or delete their Customer Data after the Agreement ends; OpenAI is not required to act without that instruction, and applicable law may require OpenAI to retain certain data regardless.
Opt-out available
No opt-out available
Actual clause text
Following expiry or termination of the Agreement, OpenAI will, at Customer's instruction, return or delete Customer Data, and existing copies unless retention of Customer Data is required under applicable laws...
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CA-P-061521
Recent changes

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 System Card was updated in an update detected on September 2, 2026. The updated do…

OpenAI's GPT-5 System Card was updated in an update detected on September 2, 2026. Two sentences we…

OpenAI's Frontier Governance Framework page was revised in an update detected on September 2, 2026.…

ai Anthropic Brazil data retention may continue despite deletion request
High
What it means
No summary available.
Opt-out available
No opt-out available
Actual clause text
in certain cases we may continue to process and retain data regardless of your request for deletion, objection, blocking or anonymisation, in order to comply with legal, contractual and regulatory obligations
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CA-P-054386
Recent changes

Anthropic updated its Claude Sonnet 5 System Card on July 14, 2026, making 251 sentence-level modif…

On July 9, 2026, Anthropic modified its Privacy Policy by removing a sentence that described the co…

Anthropic's privacy policy was updated on July 9, 2026 to add a single introductory sentence descri…

AI Difference Analysis Insight
Stripe's arbitration clause is narrower than Amazon's in one key respect: it includes a small claims court carve-out that Amazon's clause does not. PayPal's clause is the most aggressive of the three, explicitly waiving jury trial rights in addition to class action rights. From a compliance perspective, Amazon presents the lowest risk for B2B contracts while PayPal creates the highest exposure for consumer-facing applications subject to CFPB oversight.
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