Using retention labels to protect personal data
In Chapter 11, Controlling Secure Access to Information Stored in Office 365, we showed you how to use sensitivity labels and policies to protect emails and documents in your Microsoft 365 environment. Retention labels can also be used to apply protection to personal data within Microsoft 365. With retention labels, you can automatically apply labels when sensitive information types are detected or allow your users to manually apply retention labels. Your retention labels can be set up to force the retention of the content you are applying the policy to for a specified retention period.
The way that retention labels are set to be published determines which Office 365 locations the labels will be applied to.
When a retention label is published to your end users, or auto-applied based on a query, your retention label policy can apply to the following locations:
- Exchange Online
- SharePoint Online
- OneDrive
- Office...