Data and analysis--ownership, privacy and security

[jerry_lucarelli]

Can someone please direct me to information that will answer questions like the following:

- Can Microsoft or any other entity claim ownership or use of any data that I may upload or connect to (or analysis that I generate) for the purposes of populating dashboards, reports, or any part of Power BI?

- Is it possible that my data or analysis (uploaded or connected to, etc.) can be crawled by a web search engine or Microsoft or other entity that may expose my data and analysis in search engine results or on the web or in public in any way?

- What protections are in place to guard against someone seeing my data if it's stolen?  Is it encrypted on Power BI so that if it is stolen there is still some level of protection?

- Generally, can my data or analysis be used or viewed in any way by anyone else except me?

Thank you.

[MiguelMartinez · Accepted solution]

Hi @jerry_lucarelli,

The short answer to your first 2 questions is no. Details about this and answers for your other questions can be found in this article and whitepaper for download.

[jerry_lucarelli]

Perfect.  The white paper with links to the Microsoft Online Services Terms and the Microsoft Enterprise Privacy Statement were what I was looking for.  Thank you.