Question

A marketing manager at Contoso uses Microsoft 365 Copilot in the chat experience with web content enabled. She asks Copilot to compare Contoso's internal Q3 sales figures (from a SharePoint file) against publicly available industry benchmarks. She is concerned about whether her confidential sales data will be exposed to the public internet during this request. Which statement best describes how Copilot handles her organizational data in this scenario?

Accepted Answer

Her Q3 sales figures remain within the Microsoft 365 service boundary and are not sent to the public web or used to train foundation models; only publicly available benchmark content is retrieved from the web.

Answer

Because web content is enabled, the entire prompt including her Q3 sales figures is submitted to public search engines to improve the accuracy of the comparison.

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Her organizational data is temporarily uploaded to the public web index but deleted after 30 days, so the exposure risk is minimal.

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Copilot cannot combine internal files with web data in a single response, so she must disable web content before referencing the SharePoint file.