What Arlo does with your messages
Source: its published policy, read 2026-10-03. Its words are quoted, never paraphrased.
Whose hands it passes through
Somebody carries the message, somebody runs the model that reads it, and where the agent uses a website on your behalf somebody operates that browser. A blank below is not an absence of a company, it is a company nobody has named.
- iMessage, SMS
- Arlo AI, LLC
- Linq
- Anthropic, OpenAI, Moonshot AI, OpenRouter, ElevenLabs
- anchor-browser, daytona
- United States, with the formal California category names used throughout so a reader can match them to their rights, and a separate default for the EEA, the UK and Switzerland.
In its own words
“For a new adult account created from a server-verified U.S. location, accepting the current Terms starts prospective participation by default. Accounts created from the EEA, UK, Switzerland, any other non-U.S. country, or an unknown location”
“We announce it. Before Arlo records, it tells everyone on the call or in the meeting that it is there and that the conversation is being recorded and transcribed.”
How old this document is
Arlo last revised it on 2026-09-26, which was 7 days before we read it. 71 of the 79 policies here carry a revision date at all; the rest do not say when they were last changed, so there is no way to tell whether they describe the product as it ships today.
We have read it 3 times and it has changed 2 times since we started watching, most recently on 2026-10-03. What changed, sentence by sentence.
Who else answers this the same way
The products that gave the same answer, each on a page like this one.
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