Forum Discussion
New App Launcher and privacy
Thanks all for the feedback and discussion. If there are documents that you do not want to show in your recent documents section in the new Office 365 app launcher, you can go to www.office.com and use the "remove from list" action on a document that is in your Recent online documents, and it will also remove the document from the app launcher document section, as the services are integrated.
We also released a blog article today that includes a more in-depth video on the new experiences of www.office.com and the Office 365 app launcher that you may be interested in:
I'm familiar with confidential content, but not confidential file names. Can you give me some real world examples of when this would be an actual security or compliance violation?
- Next round or redundancies January 2018.xlsx
or Investigation into xxxxxxxx for misconduct.docx
Merger with Company YYYYYYY.docx
People do that.. - Currently I am running a job search and there are internal candidates which is considered confidential information. Their application materials include last name and first initial in the file names.
So when I did a class on Office 365 last week did I use my own account? No I did not.- Katie Kivett
Microsoft
Did the ability to remove these documents, with confidential information in the file name, from your MRU in Office.com not workaround the issue for you?
- The ability to pin and remove is good, yes. It requires intentional action which won't always happen. I find I tend to use that just to get a file I no longer care about to go away and stop taking up space in the menu.
- Thanks for sharing, that is a great example that I had not considered.
