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title: Data Classification and Retention Guidance
description: Public-safe taxonomy hints for asset classification, sensitivity, and retention metadata in threat-model specs.
ms.date: 2026-08-05
ms.date: 2026-08-24
ms.topic: reference
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- Microsoft Purview default sensitivity labels use a public ladder such as
Personal, Public, General, Confidential, and Highly Confidential.
- Public Microsoft material also uses broad categories such as Customer Data,
EUII, EUPI, OII, and System or Organizational data.
- Microsoft's public service-assurance taxonomy documents a classification
framework whose levels are Public, General, Confidential, and Highly
Confidential, and records that the level formerly named Internal is now
General. The asset-role category names above are this reference's own
vendor-neutral vocabulary and are not drawn from that page.

A team can map its local labels onto the generic hints above while preserving a
review-friendly, public-safe schema.

Sources:

* Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels: <https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/sensitivity-labels>
* Microsoft data classification categories (Customer Data, EUII, EUPI, OII): <https://learn.microsoft.com/compliance/assurance/assurance-data-classification>
* Microsoft data classification and sensitivity label taxonomy: <https://learn.microsoft.com/compliance/assurance/assurance-data-classification-and-labels>

## Private overlay for internal taxonomies

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