What can an AI agent do with
View calendars?
The agent can see and download every calendar you can access, with full event details. It cannot change anything.
How to spot it
On a Google Workspace connection or settings screen, this is https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly.
With it, an agent can
- See all your events and their details
- See calendars other people share with you
- Check when you are free or busy
It cannot, on its own
- Create, change or delete events
- Send invites
- Change calendar sharing
What a bad day looks like
Your calendar can reveal client names, addresses and when you are away, so a leak exposes more than it seems.
Set it up safer
- If it only needs to know when you are free, ask for https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.freebusy, which returns busy times without event details.
Ask the company selling the agent
- Do you store my calendar events, and for how long?
- Does it read calendars other people share with me?
Source
Checked against Google Workspace documentation on 2026-09-28. All Google Workspace permissions →
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