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Oct 02, 2023

Bing Chat Data and Privacy

- Where's the Bing chat data or history stored? Can Microsoft or organizations access the chat data or history?
- How to enable or disable th Bing chat?
- https://aka.ms/TurnOffBCE - Turning off Bing chat by this means won't turn off the bing chat consumer? - How to completely turned off the bing chat?

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  • Hello, let me answer your questions in order.
    1. Microsoft doesn't retain prompts or responses from users in Bing Chat Enterprise. Prompts and responses are maintained for a short caching period for runtime purposes. After the browser is closed, the chat topic is reset, or the session times out, Microsoft discards all prompts and responses. Chat data sent to and from Bing Chat Enterprise is encrypted in transit and at rest (during the chat session). Microsoft has no 'eyes-on' access to it. Because Microsoft doesn't retain prompts and responses, they can't be used as part of a training set for the underlying large language model. https://learn.microsoft.com/bing-chat-enterprise/privacy-and-protections#commercial-data-protection
    2. To enable or disable BCE, you can use its service plan that is provided as part of the M365 subscription. https://learn.microsoft.com/bing-chat-enterprise/manage
    3. Currently, there is not a way to block Bing Chat Consumer only while still allowing Bing Chat Enterprise. This is a common piece of feedback and we are working on the issue. We will update our documentation when/if this functionality becomes available.
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      amitgupta9
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      Eric_VanAelstyn Thanks for your response. Is there a way to completely disable Bing chat enterprise and Bing Chat consumer both?

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        Eric_VanAelstyn
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        Hi, you can block access to all Bing Chat for users on your network, by mapping www.bing.com to nochat.bing.com on your router or proxy server. Mapping edgeservices.bing.com to the same subdomain applies the same behavior in the Edge sidebar.

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