current call is built so that private conversations stay private. this page tells you exactly what we keep, what we don't, and what you can do about it.
messages, voicenotes, and saved call transcripts are encrypted with a key only your device (and the recipient's device) has. we store ciphertext — we can't read any of it, even if we wanted to. keys are ECDH on the P-256 curve; content is sealed with AES-GCM-256. private keys never leave your device.
voicemails left by phone-bridge callers (people without a current account) are encrypted to your public key by our server as they arrive — server sees the audio momentarily in memory, never writes the plaintext to disk, then throws away the encryption key.
if you lose the device that holds your private key and don't have it on another device yet, that old content becomes unreadable. this is the honest tradeoff of real end-to-end: nobody — including us — can hand you a recovery key.
turning on captions runs speech-to-text on your own microphone, inside your own browser. the text is sent to the other person so they can read what you said — that's the whole point. when turned on, the other side sees an obvious "they're viewing captions" indicator so both parties know. translation is optional; if on, the text is sent to our translation service to render in the target language.
we don't share personal data with advertisers, data brokers, or any third party for marketing. we do use two third-party services that handle specific narrow jobs: a city-lookup service that receives your public internet address (nothing else) to return a city, and a weather service that receives that city to return the current temperature. translations run on our own infrastructure.
if law enforcement presents a valid legal request, we will comply with what the law requires — for current call that means we can tell them your handle, the realms you joined, and the timestamps of messages / voicemails sent. we cannot hand over the content of your voice calls, video calls, messages, voicemails, or transcripts because we don't have readable copies — calls are peer-to-peer and content at rest is end-to-end encrypted to the recipient's device.
current call is not designed for children under 13. realms may set a minimum declared age; we rely on that declaration in good faith and will remove accounts we have reason to believe are under 13.
email [email protected] with any question about this page, a data request, or a concern.