Bee Private Compute: How Bee keeps your conversations private

Key takeaways

Bee Private Compute is designed so only you can see your conversation data by default.
Only you hold the keys to your information. Amazon has no master key that can unlock your content.
Bee does not store your audio—conversations are processed in real time and then discarded.

Your day is full of moments, both big and small, that matter. Whether it’s a commitment you made in passing or an idea that hit you mid-conversation, it can be a challenge to keep all this information straight as you navigate the busyness of a typical day.

Bee is designed for these exact moments. Bee is a personal AI that listens to your day, understands what happened, and remembers the commitments and ideas you would otherwise lose.

To do that well, Bee uses AI to better understand information about your life, and some of that information can be sensitive. It’s why privacy is built directly into the experience, and why Bee built an advanced privacy architecture called Bee Private Compute.

How does Bee Private Compute protect your data?

When your Bee captures a conversation, it transcribes the audio in real time and discards it without saving. The transcripts and insights generated from that conversation are encrypted using keys that only your device creates and controls.

Before your device shares anything with Amazon servers, it first verifies that the server is running approved, trusted software. Your data is then processed inside Bee Private Compute, the secure and isolated processing environment that no one, including Amazon and Bee, can access. Simply put, your conversation transcripts, summaries, and extracted to-dos are only accessible to you, unless you choose to share that information.

A person placing their hand on another person's back. The arm placed on the person's back is wearing a Bee device.

Only you have the key, and only you decide what gets shared. You can connect to other services to make Bee even more useful in your day-to-day life, but you choose what to share. Nothing leaves until you say so, and you can stop sharing at any time. Bee Private Compute keeps you in control.

What technology powers Bee Private Compute?

Amazon and Bee developed Private Compute from the ground up, and the technology builds on the foundation of the AWS Nitro System and its AWS Nitro Trusted Platform Module (NitroTPM). The Nitro System is the same confidential computing infrastructure that protects AWS customer data, including healthcare and financial data for Fortune 500 companies.

To learn more about the technology powering Bee Private Compute, see the recent third-party audit from the security research firm Trail of Bits and our technical white paper, which describes the architecture in detail.

What comes next

Starting today, you can sign into Bee using your Amazon account. New Bee customers will use the same Amazon account they already use across Amazon services to sign in, and existing Bee customers can continue using their current Apple or Google sign-in.

Bringing Bee and your Amazon account together will allow us to build new features and integrations over time, and Bee Private Compute gives us the foundation to do that while preserving an important principle: becoming more connected should not mean becoming less private.

Your Amazon account is used to sign you into Bee; it does not give Amazon access to your private Bee data or change the protections provided by Bee Private Compute.

Personal ambient AI can be there throughout your day, learning from the moments that matter and helping you make more of them. Bee was built so you can capture and act on these moments while keeping peace of mind that your data is secure and under your control.

You should not have to choose between a personal ambient AI that knows you and privacy. Bee gives you both.

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