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Category median

Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Wire Swiss GmbH · wire.com

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The Works Council Advocate

Weighted verdict

A recorded meeting is personal data about everyone in it. Wants to know who may record, who is told, how long it is kept, and whether attention tracking or attendance analytics can be switched off outright. Reads engagement scoring as surveillance with a chart.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Works Council Advocate

The meeting itself

How this is scored

Whether the call works: participant capacity, video and audio quality under load, screen sharing, breakout rooms, moderation, and what happens on a bad connection.

0 — Small meetings only, no screen sharing worth the name, no moderation controls, and the call degrades without telling anyone.

3 — Standard meetings with screen sharing and mute-all, but low participant limits, no breakout rooms and no bandwidth adaptation stated.

5 — Meetings at the scale most teams need with screen sharing, breakout rooms, host moderation, and documented behaviour on constrained connections.

8 — Large meetings and webinars with published capacity limits, per-participant moderation and waiting rooms, layout control, simulcast or adaptive bitrate stated, and reliable behaviour on mobile networks.

10 — Scale and control are engineering claims the vendor stands behind: capacity published per plan and per region, selective forwarding with adaptive quality documented, live streaming, hardware-room support, and diagnostics an admin can read after a bad call.

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The Works Council Advocate

The published pages give hard numbers only for capacity — video conferences up to 150 participants and chats up to 2,000 — while we found no public information on screen sharing, breakout rooms, mute-all or any host moderation, nor on what a call does on a constrained connection. For the chair of a council meeting, none of the controls that make a meeting governable are documented. 1 2

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Encryption & meeting access

How this is scored

What is actually encrypted and against whom, plus who can get into a meeting. Judged on documented mechanism rather than on the word "encrypted".

0 — Transport encryption only, undocumented; meetings joinable by anyone with a link and no lobby.

3 — TLS in transit and encryption at rest, with the vendor holding all keys; access control is a passcode.

5 — The above plus a lobby or waiting room, host-controlled admission, per-meeting passcodes, and a clear statement that the vendor can technically access media.

8 — Optional end-to-end encryption for meetings with the trade-offs named (which features stop working), documented key handling, SSO-gated joining, and per-meeting access policies.

10 — End-to-end encryption available without surrendering the product — its cryptography documented or open source, key management explained, identity verification for participants, and the vendor stating plainly what it can and cannot see.

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The Works Council Advocate

The strongest case in this whole category: text, voice, video and files are end-to-end encrypted under MLS by default, the code is 100 per cent open source on GitHub, and the vendor states plainly it holds no encryption keys and uses no backdoors. Participants verify each other's device fingerprints, guests join only through password-protected links, and ID Shield binds identities to our own identity provider; the pages assert frequent independent audits without naming a specific report, which alone keeps it off the top mark. 2 3 4 6 7 9

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Reach & accessibility

How this is scored

Whether everyone who needs to join can: browser without an install, dial-in, low bandwidth, guests without accounts, captions and keyboard operation.

0 — A desktop client is the only way in; guests must create an account.

3 — Browser joining exists but is degraded, guests can join by link, and there is no dial-in and no accessibility statement.

5 — Full-feature browser joining without an install, guest access by link, mobile apps, and a stated accessibility posture.

8 — Telephone dial-in with numbers listed, live captions, keyboard-navigable and screen-reader-tested interface, and documented low-bandwidth behaviour.

10 — Reach is designed for: browser parity with the client, dial-in across the regions the customer operates in, live captions and translation, a published accessibility conformance report, and a usable experience on a poor mobile connection.

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The Works Council Advocate

Guest access by password-protected link is documented, which spares external participants an account, but we found no public information on joining from a browser without an install, on telephone dial-in, on live captions, or on any accessibility statement. For colleagues on poor connections or using screen readers, the published pages say nothing. 2

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Recordings, retention & admin control

How this is scored

A recording is personal data about everyone in the room. Who may record, who is told, where it is stored, how long it lives, and what the works council can switch off.

0 — Anyone can record, storage location unstated, no retention rule, no admin policy.

3 — Host-only recording with a notification, but storage region unstated, retention manual, and no organisation-wide policy control.

5 — Admin policy over who may record, participant notification and consent prompt, stated storage region, and manual deletion that works.

8 — Automatic retention and deletion per policy, recordings encrypted at rest with access logged, transcription handled with its own retention rule, and attendance or analytics features that can be switched off for co-determination.

10 — Built for a works agreement: every recording, transcript and analytics feature independently switchable and documented, retention executed and evidenced, an audit trail of who accessed which recording, and no participant-level behavioural scoring at all.

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The Works Council Advocate

The published pages show no recording, transcription, attendance-tracking or engagement-scoring feature anywhere — which from a works-council chair's view removes the surveillance surface entirely — but they also leave every governance question open: we found no public information on who may record, who is told, where a recording sits or how long it lives. What is published is retention hygiene for everything else — messages deleted after delivery, logs at most 90 days, usage data at most 365 days — and an admin console that can restrict guest links, file sharing and third-party apps. 2 4

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Integrations & deployment

How this is scored

Calendar, identity and the wider stack — plus, in this category, whether the product can be run on the customer's own infrastructure at all.

0 — No calendar integration, no SSO, no API; cloud-only with no alternative.

3 — One calendar integration and basic SSO, no API worth building on, cloud-only.

5 — Calendar integration for the major suites, SAML or OIDC SSO, a documented API for scheduling, and room-system support.

8 — The above plus SCIM provisioning, embedding via SDK, webhooks for meeting events, and either a self-hosted option or a documented private-cloud deployment.

10 — Deployment is the customer's choice: a genuine on-premises or private-cloud option with the same features, open protocols or open source, embeddable SDKs, and identity integration that does not require the vendor's directory.

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The Works Council Advocate

SAML single sign-on with SCIM provisioning is documented on the paid tiers, the apps SDK is public and open source with webhooks for things like GitHub notifications, and — decisive for co-determination — a genuine on-premises deployment is offered with MLS stated to protect every feature in both cloud and on-premises versions. We found no public information on calendar integration or meeting-room system support. 1 2 6 8

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where media and metadata are processed, who the contracting entity is, which subprocessors carry the traffic. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which in this category is heavily.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, media routed through unstated regions, subprocessors unnamed.

3 — EU data residency for storage while media relays or metadata remain non-EU, or the contracting entity sits outside the EU.

5 — EU hosting and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — relays, analytics, support tooling, transcription — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — Media and metadata processed in the EU on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: media never leaves the EU, every subprocessor European, certification published, and an on-premises option that removes the question entirely.

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The Works Council Advocate

Media and metadata are stated to sit on servers in Germany and Ireland, a complete subprocessor list is published naming AWS for EU hosting, self-hosted Countly in Germany and Stripe in the USA for payments, and transfers are covered by described adequacy or standard contractual clauses; the contracting entity, however, is Wire Swiss GmbH in Zug, Switzerland, with only an Article 27 representative in Berlin. The on-premises option, which would end the question outright, is what keeps this high for a buyer who weighs sovereignty heavily. 1 3 4 5

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the annual invoice for their host count — including the capacity, dial-in and recording storage they actually need — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A per-host headline exists, but participant caps, dial-in minutes or recording storage are unpriced or unmentioned.

5 — Per-host prices public with billing period stated and capacity limits given, but at least one commonly needed piece (webinar capacity, dial-in, storage) sits in an unpriced add-on.

8 — Every tier and add-on priced publicly with per-host maths, capacity limits, dial-in rates, storage allowances, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator producing the annual invoice for a given host count, meeting size and recording volume, including overage and per-region dial-in.

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The Works Council Advocate

Most of the invoice is readable from one page: €7.45 per person/month with annual payment or €8.94 monthly for teams up to 100, a free tier for up to 5 people, and capacity limits published (video conferences up to 150 participants). Above 100 people the price becomes a conversation, the Platinum 24/7 and 4-hour support options carry no published price, and we found no public information on VAT treatment or minimum term. 2

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 3 Report an error
Subprocessors US CLOUD Act reach ⚠ unverified 0/2 pts 4 Report an error

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Sources (9)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage wire.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Pricing wire.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Security page wire.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy wire.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Imprint wire.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap wire.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap wire.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap wire.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap wire.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →