Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can enable transcription in multilingual meetings (Copilot and Teams Premium)
🚨 The Signal: Teams Premium/Copilot users can now enable multilingual transcription, allowing each participant to set their own spoken language. This enhances meeting inclusivity but expands the scope of recorded data.
The Impact
Security teams and compliance officers are affected by expanded data capture, increasing the risk of sensitive information being transcribed in multiple languages.
- Security teams: Increased data volume and complexity for eDiscovery and data loss prevention.
- Compliance officers: New considerations for data retention and privacy policies across languages.
- Legal teams: Potential for new challenges in legal hold and disclosure of multilingual transcripts.
- End-users: Unintended transcription of sensitive discussions in various languages.
The Action
- Review existing Microsoft Teams data retention policies in Microsoft Purview for transcription data.
- Update Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies in Microsoft Purview to account for multilingual content in Teams transcripts.
- Communicate to users with Copilot/Teams Premium licenses about the implications of enabling multilingual transcription.
- Assess the impact on eDiscovery workflows for multilingual content within Microsoft Purview.
- Consider implementing sensitivity labels for Teams meetings where multilingual transcription might be used.
Domain: Teams · Impact: medium · Workload: Teams