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AT&T Privacy FAQs
What is the purpose of AT&T’s Privacy Notice?
Whenever you do something like buy or use one of our products or services or visit our websites, information is created. Because we know privacy is important to you, we have the AT&T Privacy Notice to explain how we collect, use, protect, and share that created information. Thus, the main purpose of the Notice is to help you understand our relationship and how we can deliver and improve the services we offer.
What choices do I have?
AT&T provides all consumers in the United States with the below choices pertaining to their personal information, which can be exercised by visiting our Your Choices and Controls.
- Do Not Sell
- Access or Delete
- Correct
- Control Sensitive Personal Information
- Port my Data
Where can I learn more about my state’s rights?
To learn more about your state’s respective rights, visit our State law approach page.
Where can I learn more about AT&T’s Privacy Principles?
If you’d like to learn more about AT&T’s commitment to privacy, visit our Privacy Center.
What is Global Privacy Control?
Global Privacy Control, often abbreviated as GPC, is a digital tool that can be found on certain browsers and browser extensions. Its primary function is to communicate automatically with websites, signaling your preference not to be tracked or have your personal data sold. To identify if your browser supports this tool and to discover how to activate GPC, you should visit the official Global Privacy Control website.
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Effective November 15, 2025, we updated our Privacy Notice to comply with state privacy laws that go into effect in 2025 and clarified how customers can exercise their sharing preferences.
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Effective July 25, 2024, we clarified our disclosures related to Your Privacy Choices and our use of de-identified data. And we noted that we may share audio recordings with analytics companies to provide better insights on how we serve our customers.
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Effective July 17th, we updated the contact information for questions regarding our privacy notices.
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This updated Privacy Notice is effective December 11, 2023. It is shorter, easier to understand, and includes updates to comply with new state privacy laws.
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Effective June 2, 2023, we clarified that phone number is an example of equipment information collected.
We are committed to providing you transparency by letting you know when we've made changes to our policy. We truly value your business.
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Effective October 24th, our analytics tools include data from all managers.
Effective July 17th, we updated the contact information for questions regarding our privacy notices. Also, on July 22nd we noted that for some employees our analytics tools may use individual data.
Effective April 19, 2024, we updated the notice to clarify that we collect and use location data for safety, security and fraud prevention services. We’ve also updated this notice to disclose that we share some electronic network information with our affiliates, and we will now use the recordings we already make of customer care calls to analyze employee engagement and for Workforce Analytics.
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Effective January 12, 2024, we updated this notice to clarify that data from Company Official Use (COU) devices such as COU phones may be used to evaluate employees’ presence in administrative office locations during work hours.
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Effective October 10, 2023, we updated this notice to clarify that biometrics may be used to identify individuals doing work for the company.
We are committed to transparency, so we want you to know we’re updating the AT&T Privacy Policy, effective January 1, 2023:
- We’re making customer choices simpler. All customers can now select “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information,” and we’re removing the specific opt-out for External Marketing and Analytics Reports, which only share information that is already aggregated (grouped), meaning they don’t identify individuals.
- We’ve expanded our section on State Privacy Rights and Choices. It includes categories and examples of information we collect, create and share. It also explains choices available to you to manage your information.
- We’ve updated the names, descriptions and terms of our ad programs. Our “Personalized” program replaces “Relevant Advertising” and provides you offers and ads that are relevant to your interests. “Personalized Plus” replaces “Enhanced Relevant Advertising” and uses more of your information for more relevant communications to you. You can opt out or opt in at any time.
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Effective June 6, 2022, we have removed references in our policy to Xandr. This is in addition to the removal of WarnerMedia and its family of companies that was announced on April 8, 2022 as these entities are no longer affiliates of AT&T.
We are committed to providing you transparency by letting you know when we’ve made changes to our policy. We truly value your business.
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Effective April 8, 2022, we have removed references in our policy to WarnerMedia and its family of companies as they are no longer affiliates of AT&T.
We are committed to providing you transparency by letting you know when we’ve made changes to our policy. We truly value your business.
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We are committed to transparency, so we want you to know we’ve made an update to the AT&T Privacy Policy.
Effective November 1, 2021, we removed references to U-verse TV from our policy as that service is now covered by the DIRECTV Privacy Policy.
We value your business, and thank you for being a customer of AT&T.
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On June 16th, we updated the California Consumer Privacy Act section of our privacy policy.
- We clarified the types of information collected and the purposes for that collection.
- We provided a link to our CCPA Metrics.
- See the prior version of the Privacy Policy.
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In keeping with our commitment to transparency, we want you to know that we’ve updated parts of the AT&T Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read our full policy, but we’ve summarized the key changes.
On October 1, 2021, the Nevada Privacy law went into effect, allowing residents of Nevada to ask us not to sell their personal information. To see more, visit Your Choices and Controls.
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As of August 26, 2021, DIRECTV has its own Privacy Policy.
As of November 1, these additional key changes will take effect for AT&T customers under our revised policy:
- We may collect, use or share biometric information for fraud prevention and security purposes.
- If you opt in to our Enhanced Relevant Advertising program, we may use other information from testing and running our network to make inferences regarding web browsing and videos watched over secure connections to personalize your experience or deliver more relevant marketing messages and offers to you. Keep in mind that we don’t access sensitive information or break encryption, and we don’t use the content of texts, emails or phone calls for marketing or advertising.
- If we share information with third parties for purposes such as verifying your identity and protecting your financial accounts, you can manage this sharing of information simply by going to Manage Privacy Choices.
We are committed to keeping your information secure, as well as providing you with Choices and Controls for how your information is used. You can visit the Choices and Controls section of our Privacy Center at any time to adjust your settings. Your service is not affected by these changes, and your continued use of our services indicates your acceptance of these changes.
We value your business, and thank you for being a customer of AT&T.
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