{"version":"2.1.311","anchor":"tether-live-gate-now-off-for-zdr-orgs","canonical_anchor":"tether-live-gate-now-off-for-zdr-orgs","heading":"Zero data retention accounts are kept out of the tether feature","tier":"internal","area":"Tether","scope":"org","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311\/e\/tether-live-gate-now-off-for-zdr-orgs","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311","markdown":"### Zero data retention accounts are kept out of the tether feature\n\nClaude Code now switches off its tether feature for zero data retention accounts when a server-side switch says so\n\n**Unclear.** What the tether feature does is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nZero data retention is an account arrangement under which Anthropic does not keep your data. Claude Code now checks for such accounts before turning on a live feature called tether. If the account is zero data retention and a server-controlled switch allows the exclusion, tether is off. Otherwise Claude Code decides as before. The result is remembered for the rest of the session.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis keeps a feature away from accounts set up for zero data retention, which is a privacy-related change in behaviour for those accounts.\n\n- Flag `tengu_twinkly_sunrise`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.311; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: on) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Tether\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 5\/5\n- Scope: org\n- Heads-up: no"}