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What the r1 knows about you
The Rabbit r1 is a $199 pocket AI companion device (a bright orange handheld designed by Teenage Engineering), unveiled at CES in January 2024 by Rabbit Inc (founder Jesse Lyu, Santa Monica). It was marketed around a 'Large Action Model' (LAM) that would operate apps on the user's behalf; an independent, reproducible investigation showed the device is largely a single Android 13 launcher app, and reviews judged it broadly non-functional at launch. Rabbit self-reported over 100,000 units sold, while The Verge reported only about 5,000 of roughly 100,000 buyers were active at a given time. The company has continued shipping software (teach mode, rabbitOS 2, rabbitOS 2.1 into April 2026), so it remains active, but the marketed capability has not been verifiably realized; the registry records it at pilot maturity (capability-grade) with the commercial-scale distribution captured in keyFacts. Reports of unpaid staff in late 2025/2026 are third-party and company-disputed.
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What it collects about you
Where your data goes
What you can control
What it collects about you
The data this device picks up.
Your location
Rabbit collects precise geolocation data from the R1 device using GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth signals; location is transmitted to Rabbit's servers as part of the device initialization handshake.
Your location
The Rabbit R1 collects name, email address, mobile telephone number, physical address, chat input, photos, videos, precise geolocation data via GPS and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals, IP address, device identifiers, usage data including pages viewed and searches conducted, and fitness and wellness data such as age, weight, height, goals, and nutrition.
Where your data goes
Who else can see it once it leaves the device.
Sent to the cloud
Voice queries, photos, voice recordings, notes, transcriptions, and search queries are sent to the Rabbithole cloud journal. All communication is encrypted. The company also uses Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Meta pixels, and TikTok tracking on its website.
Shared with others
Rabbit shares user information with vendors and service providers, and sends processed user conversations to AI model partners including Perplexity, Anthropic, and OpenAI, though it states these do not contain personally identifiable information.
Selling your data
Rabbit states it never sells personal information to data brokers, though the website uses extensive ad-tracking cookies from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, TikTok, and Bing.
Selling your data
Rabbit never sells your personal information to data brokers; data is shared with vendors and service providers for hosting, analytics, fraud prevention, and customer service, with analytics and advertising partners including Google Analytics and third-party advertisers, and with third-party partners for telecom provider services and Experiences you enable.
What you can control
Your say over the data it holds.
How long they keep it
Rabbit retains personal information as long as needed for the purposes obtained; a July 2024 security incident revealed chat logs and pairing data were stored on-device with no way to delete them until a factory reset option was added post-launch.
Deleting your data
Users can request deletion of their information, and a factory reset option was added in July 2024 after it was discovered that chat logs and pairing data were stored on-device with no way to erase them; account deletion permanently removes cloud data.
Deleting your data
Rabbit R1 users can request deletion of some or all collected information at any time, withdraw consent at any time, request data portability to transfer records to other data processors, access and correct their data, and unsubscribe from promotional emails; Rabbit does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
How long they keep it
Rabbit retains personal information for as long as needed or permitted considering the ongoing relationship, legal obligations, and statutes of limitations; third-party data from Google APIs is stored in encrypted format on servers subject to access control measures; the policy does not explicitly state that all personal data is encrypted at rest or in transit.
The full record
- Design
- bright orange square handheld with scroll wheel + camera; Teenage Engineering design
- Launch
- unveiled CES January 2024 at $199; no subscription
- Form Factor
- wearable / pocket AI companion device (handheld)