Is Microsoft 365 Copilot safe for work?
Low risk · 0Microsoft · Productivity · facts (high-confidence)
Microsoft 365 Copilot is low-risk for default at-work use (0/100): it does not train on your data, and holds SOC 2 Type II.
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Low risk
Watch out: Copilot inherits the user's existing permissions, so over-shared SharePoint/OneDrive content becomes far easier for employees to surface. That is an oversharing and governance risk rather than a training one.
Data and compliance facts
- Trains on consumer-tier data
- No
- Trains on business-tier data
- No
- Training opt-out available
- N/A
- SOC 2 Type II
- Yes
- ISO 27001
- Yes
- ISO 42001 (AI management)
- Yes
- GDPR Data Processing Addendum
- Yes
- HIPAA BAA
- Yes
- EU data residency
- Yes
- SSO / SAML
- Yes
- Data retention
- Copilot interaction history stored in the customer's tenant (Substrate/Exchange) and governed by the tenant's Microsoft 365 retention, eDiscovery, and Purview policies; not retained for training.
- Safer tier
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
Why it scores 0 out of 100
No risk factors flagged. Strong default data handling.