When you connect an AI assistant to In Parallel over MCP, it can read authorized Workspace context. MCP privacy replaces directory-known people with stable pseudonyms in MCP responses before those responses reach the assistant.
The assistant can still distinguish masked people. Masking reduces exposure of known names and email addresses, but it is not a general redaction tool for every piece of personal information.
What it does
The Mask people in MCP responses control rewrites recognized person fields on their way out of In Parallel. Each recognized person becomes a consistent pseudonym — something like Person 4F2A1C — and their email becomes a masked token like [email protected].
Because the same recognized person maps to the same pseudonym, your assistant can still reason about relationships in the work, such as one person owning several open Action Items.
What gets masked
Masked | Examples |
People's names | Full names and the first names of people In Parallel knows — including where they're mentioned in summaries and notes |
Email addresses | Replaced with a masked token tied to that person's pseudonym |
Meeting speakers | Speaker labels on transcripts and meeting records |
Phone numbers | Masked in the fields that carry them |
What isn't masked
Masking is deliberately narrow so your data stays usable. The following are not changed:
The In Parallel product and the In Parallel recorder — these are not people, so the company name and the meeting-recorder bot are left intact rather than turned into pseudonyms.
Workspace, team, and object names — a Workspace called "Back-to-School Campaign" stays readable; only people are masked.
IDs, URLs, and filenames — identifiers are left untouched so they keep working, even on the rare occasion a filename contains a name.
People outside your In Parallel directory — In Parallel only masks people it already knows: members of your workspace and people who've taken part in your recorded meetings. A name that appears in free text but belongs to no one In Parallel knows may not be caught (it doesn't guess at arbitrary names).
Turn it on
MCP privacy is a Company policy. You need Company Owner access to change it.
Open your user menu and select Settings.
Select the Company, then open Security.
Find MCP privacy.
Switch Mask people in MCP responses on.
The policy applies to MCP responses from the Company until a Company Owner switches it off.
Another way to control what you share
MCP privacy governs what your connected AI tools see. If instead you want to take a single meeting's full record somewhere yourself, you can download that meeting's raw transcript from the meeting page — a non-MCP way to choose exactly what data leaves In Parallel and where it goes.
Related
Connect your AI tool to In Parallel — set up Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor over MCP.
In Parallel MCP tools reference — the tools whose responses masking applies to.
Download a meeting's raw transcript — the non-MCP way to control your data.
Governance, security, and trust — how In Parallel handles access and data.
AI in In Parallel — what the AI layer does, and what it doesn't.