A multinational technology corporation that develops and licenses software, hardware, and cloud computing services, including the Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, Xbox gaming platform, and Azure cloud services. The company operates major digital platforms and services used by billions of consumers and businesses worldwide, making its policies on data privacy, content moderation, and AI governance significant for user rights and digital market competition. As a designated gatekeeper under various regulatory frameworks, its policy decisions regarding platform access, data handling, and algorithmic transparency have broad implications for the technology industry.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from Microsoft’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
Microsoft acquires broad intellectual property rights over user content at no cost, enabling it to use that content across the Services globally without compensating the user.
This cap defines the maximum financial recovery available regardless of the magnitude of actual loss, and designates direct damages as the exclusive remedy, foreclosing other forms of relief.
Account closure is a permanent and consequential action that eliminates access to the account and any Services tied to it.
The clause establishes that Copilot does not create a new security perimeter — it operates within and inherits the user's existing security and compliance framework, with access to generated content …
The clause establishes that a user-controlled mechanism for managing privacy preferences exists and is persistently available within Copilot.
This document establishes Microsoft's governance framework and internal standards for the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence systems across its product portfolio, including Azure AI, Copilot, and Bing. The …
This document sets out Microsoft's rules and principles for how it builds and deploys AI responsibly, covering fairness, privacy, safety, and accountability. When you use Copilot at work, it operates …
This agreement sets the rules for using Microsoft's consumer services, covering account maintenance, content rights, payment terms, and AI use. If you do not sign in at least once every …
This document explains what data Microsoft collects about you—including your location, browsing history, and the actual content of your emails and files—and how it uses that data, including to show …
Microsoft revised its privacy statement to clarify how it collects and uses data with Microsoft Copilot. The updated terms now explicitly state that Copilot collects data about your interactions with …
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Companies change their terms without announcing it. We capture governance documents, compare each new version with the last, and publish what changed, with the source text behind it. One email a week on what we found and what we could not reach.
ConductAtlas tracks 4 Microsoft documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Microsoft has made 2 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 35 provisions across Microsoft's tracked documents.
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