An AI-powered assistant integrated across Microsoft's suite of products and services that helps users with tasks like writing, coding, data analysis, and content creation through natural language interactions. The platform processes user inputs and generates responses using large language models, requiring access to personal data, documents, and usage patterns to provide contextual assistance. Policy monitoring is important because the service handles sensitive user information and creative outputs, with terms governing data usage, content ownership, privacy protections, and liability for AI-generated results.
High, provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium, provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low, standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from Microsoft Copilot’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
Consent to data collection, use, and disclosure is embedded in acceptance of the Terms, meaning agreeing to use the Services simultaneously grants this data consent.
Prohibiting all forms of representative and collective relief means each user must pursue claims individually, which limits the practical ability to challenge widespread conduct.
Binding individual arbitration replaces the user's right to litigate disputes in court, shifting dispute resolution to a private arbitral forum under federal arbitration law.
This prohibition places a clear obligation on users to maintain appropriate human oversight whenever AI outputs could consequentially affect any person's legal, financial, life, employment, or human …
This prohibition covers both direct and indirect use, meaning users cannot use outputs or derived data from Microsoft Copilot's AI services as inputs to build or enhance any competing or complementar…
This document sets out what you can and cannot do when using Microsoft Copilot, and what rights you give Microsoft by using it. You consent to Microsoft collecting and using …
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ConductAtlas tracks 1 Microsoft Copilot documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Microsoft Copilot has made 1 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 28 provisions across Microsoft Copilot's tracked documents. 11 are rated high severity, 15 medium, and 2 low.
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