Video Interviews & Assessments
The platform holds your recording on the employer's instructions and keeps it for anything from weeks to years. 40% of the policies we read say nothing about whether AI scores it, and deleted can mean kept as statistics, so asking in writing is how you find out.
The read at a glance
They record your face and voice and score you with software you never see.
A leak exposes a video of your face and voice tied to a job you applied for and an automated score.
The recording is kept to the employer's instructions, from weeks to years, and "deleted" can mean kept as statistics.
Some platforms verify identity; all capture your face and voice on camera.
Industry profile reviewed 23 August 2026. Also machine-readable via the free API.
If it leaks
What leaks here is your face, your voice and a machine's judgment of you under pressure, tied to your name and the job you didn't get. You can change a stolen password. You cannot change your face or your voice.
What repeats in the policies
The employer holds the pen
Nearly every platform here processes your interview on the hiring company's instructions: the employer decides how long the recording stays and whether it goes, and more than one platform forwards deletion requests to the employer rather than acting itself. A request to the employer covers the vendor's copy, and the platform is obliged to help answer it.
Most policies do not mention the scoring
Half the policies in this trade say nothing about AI at all, while the same companies advertise interview scoring, summaries and fraud detection. A recording can be scored without a word of it in the policy, and asking for the complete copy of your file is how anything they worked out about you comes to light.
Weeks for one, two years for another
Where a number is given at all, it runs from eight weeks to two years after you press stop. Several policies give no period, and one says indefinite. The recording of your face and voice sits on the vendor's servers that whole time, hired or not.
Deleted can mean kept as statistics
More than one platform anonymises interview data for its own analysis instead of erasing it, by a method it never describes, and counts that as deletion. What stays behind after a deletion is theirs to state, and asking for it in writing puts the answer on your record.
Kept against a claim you never made
An employer that keeps your interview after turning you down is usually holding it against a possible discrimination claim, and in the UK the window for bringing one is measured in months, not years. You can still ask, and a deletion request lands either way: a refusal has to name the ground keeping the file, and that ground expires when the window does.
What a company here typically holds
Worked out from the industry, not from any one company. What you actually handed over is yours to record.
What this can reveal about you
Built only from what this kind of service actually collects. A dimension that the data does not support is not listed.
Your face and voice Highly likely
Face and voice are captured and analysed.
Mental health Possible
Emotion-scoring claims to read affect and confidence.
What lawfully stays after you leave
Two kinds of hold. Law sets it: a statute makes them keep it. They set it: a ground the company grants itself.
Anonymised, aggregated, or AI-trained data They set it often kept indefinitely
They treat it as no longer being about you, though such data can sometimes be re-identified.
Records tied to a live or potential dispute They set it the limitation period of the claim
They can keep records to defend a live or possible legal claim.
Who wants this data
More than one platform reserves the right to analyse interview content for its own product improvement, anonymised by its own definition. Your interview can keep working for the vendor after the hiring decision is long made.
Sold or shared Possible
Analysis is sold to employers; the recordings train the vendor's scoring.
AI training High
Half of policies are silent on AI while the same firms sell scoring of your face, voice, and words.
Even anonymised, this can still be you
There is nothing to anonymise: your recorded face and voice are biometric identifiers, and your spoken answers carry a style that language models attribute on top (Staab et al., ICLR 2024).
Name, date of birth, postcode Sometimes
Fifteen demographic attributes re-identify 99.98% of Americans in a released dataset (Rocher, Hendrickx and de Montjoye, Nature Communications, 2019); date of birth, postcode, and sex alone did it for most people in the first study of the problem (Sweeney, 2000).
Face and voice Typical
A face, voice, or fingerprint template identifies a person directly; there is nothing left to anonymise, and it cannot be reissued like a password.
Browsing fingerprint Typical
Browser and device fingerprints were unique for 84% of visitors in the first large study (Eckersley, 2010), and sparse histories of what people viewed re-identified them against public reviews (Narayanan and Shmatikov, 2008).
The studies Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models (Nature Communications 10, 3069, 2019)·Simple Demographics Often Identify People Uniquely (Carnegie Mellon University, Data Privacy Working Paper 3, 2000)·How Unique Is Your Web Browser? (Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2010), 2010)·Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2008)
The wording that does the work
Clauses that recur across this industry, and what each one actually permits.
“to provide and improve our services”
The catch-all purpose. Analytics, profiling, personalisation and AI training all fit under it. When they want to do something new with your data, this sentence usually already allows it.
The move An objection tells them to use your data to run the service and nothing more.
“we do not sell your personal information”
Usually this means no cash changes hands. Your data can still go to ad networks, analytics firms and partners, because they count that as sharing rather than selling.
The move Use the do-not-sell switch where there is one, and put an objection in writing as well.
“service providers, partners, and affiliates”
This is how your data leaves with no name attached. Recipients are described by what they do rather than named, and you cannot send a request to a company you cannot name.
The move An access request can ask for recipients by name rather than by category, and UK and EU law put that choice with you.
“aggregated or de-identified information”
Taking your name off does not take away the pattern, and the pattern often still points at you. Policies give themselves free use of this data with no end date, on the basis that it is no longer about you.
The move If a deletion comes back as 'anonymised', keep the reply. It usually means de-identified, and it is their claim, not a fact you can check.
“retained as long as necessary, or as required by law”
They can keep it for legal duties, tax rules, fraud prevention, possible lawsuits and their own business reasons. None of those has a firm end date, so deletion turns into something you have to argue for.
The move Which reasons apply to you, and how long each runs, is a request of its own.
“you grant us a licence to use your content”
This is a contract term rather than a data setting, so a privacy request cannot undo it. A careful version ends when your account does. A broad one can be passed on, never expires and survives deletion.
The move Their terms say whether the licence ends when the account does. Close the account and log the date here.
“we process this data on behalf of the hiring organisation”
The platform answers to the company that interviewed you, not to you. Retention, deletion, and what the recording is used for follow the employer's instructions, which you never see.
The move The request goes to the company you applied to, and the vendor's copy rides on it. A separate request to the platform reaches whatever it holds as its own.
“we do not request special category data, but it may be incidentally present”
A camera collects what a form never asks: your face, your voice, your accent, a visible disability, religious dress. Calling it incidental changes nothing about what is now on file.
The move The complete copy includes the recording itself. What was read off it, if anything, owes you an answer in the same reply.
“we may analyse anonymised or aggregated data to improve our services”
Your interview keeps working for the platform after the process ends, stripped of your name by a method they never describe. Under their definition it is no longer your data at all.
The move An objection draws the line at analysis beyond running the interview; erasure asks for the source material to go.
Their own policy is the one that binds them. Pin it down with a request, and keep the reply.