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lo_p_ez
10 years agoAdvocate II
Privacy Levels Consequences?
I would like to have some clarification on what is really happening when one selects Private/Organizational/Public privacy levels on PowerBI. The official website states that "In Power BI Desktop, pr...
Anonymous
7 years agoNot applicable
| Private | A Private data source is completely isolated from other data sources. Contains sensitive or confidential information. |
| Organizational | An Organizational data source is isolated from all Public data sources, but it is visible to other Organizational data sources |
| Public | A Public data source gives everyone visibility to the data contained in the data source |
Here’s a brief summary that Ehren from the Power Query team sent me to better understand this:
- Public data can be sent to Public/Organizational/Private sources.
- Organizational data can be sent to Organizational/Private sources (but not to Public sources).
- Private data can’t be sent anywhere (even to other Private sources).
https://www.poweredsolutions.co/2019/03/12/data-privacy-and-the-formula-firewall/