December 9, 2025
Implement automated compliance recording and transcripts for selected Google Meet users
What’s happening
In order to help organizations, particularly those in the financial services industry, meet strict regulatory archiving requirements, today we are introducing Google Meet Compliance Recording, a new feature that can be enabled by administrators to automatically record meetings and capture transcripts for specific users or groups requiring regulatory monitoring by a registered organization. This feature helps financial firms comply with communication retention and supervision rules mandated by the SEC, FINRA, and the CFTC. It enables firms to retain, monitor, and store digital communications in the required format to adhere to specific regulations like FINRA Rule 3170 and CFTC 17 CFR 1.31. This solution can also be used for other applications, including other global Financial Services compliance regimest (MIFID, etc), and for regulatory requirements in other industries like Healthcare, Public Sector, and more. This solution is available as part of the Assured Controls add-on.
In this article, we will refer to users who benefit from the solution as “regulated users”. This can include any persons who need to be monitored to comply with regulatory requirements; registered broker/dealers, compliance officers, broader employees who communicate with the former groups, and more.
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New Google Meet Compliance Recording feature |
Why this matters
- Meet regulatory requirements: When compliance recording is turned on for a regulated user, their Meet meetings are automatically recorded, and transcripts are captured. Both the recordings and transcripts are stored in a WORM (write once, read many) compliant Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket with appropriate retention policies, ensuring immutable records for regulatory archiving.
- Enable collaboration features: Historically, regulated entities had to disable several valuable collaboration features in Meet (like chat and screen sharing) to comply with SEC rules. This new framework solves that by automatically creating unalterable records of the recording and transcript when a regulated user joins a call, preserving the standard Meet experience for both participants with the feature turned on or off.
- User experience: All call participants will have an uninterrupted experience, with the assurance that regulated user communications are automatically archived for regulatory purposes.
How compliance recording works
Compliance recording is automatic and cannot be disabled by participants once the recording starts.
- Visibility: All meeting participants will see a Compliance badge displayed when a regulated user is present. This badge cannot be turned off. A notification is also shown on the pre-meeting screen on the web and when the recording starts.
- Storage and Sharing: The recordings and transcripts are not automatically shared with attendees, attached to Google Calendar events, or sent via email notifications to users. They are for compliance archiving only.
- Limitations:
- Users cannot access these compliance recordings; they must record the meeting themselves if they want a personal copy.
- As with existing Meet recordings, compliance recordings are limited to a maximum of 8 hours, after which regulated users might be removed from the meeting.
- The recording will not capture content in Breakout Rooms when regulated users join them.
- Audio/Video Options: Admins can choose to record Audio only or Audio & video.
Getting started
- Admins: The compliance recording setting is off by default. This setting can be applied at the organizational unit (OU) or configuration group level to target only your regulated users. This feature is tied to the license, so only users with an eligible add-on license will be subject to these measures.
- End users: No action is required for end users. The recording and transcription process for compliance is automatic and transparent to the user, except for the in-meeting notification and the permanent Compliance badge.
Rollout pace
- Available now
Availability
- Available for users with the Google Workspace Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on license
Resources
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up Google Meet compliance recording