Check your Azure portal today. If you don’t see the ZDR confirmation, your "private" AI is creating a 30-day paper trail of your most sensitive IP. Fix it.

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Why does this matter? Operational Defensibility. When you activate ZDR, you shift from "We delete data eventually" to "Data persistence is technically disabled."

Auditors prefer certainty. Lawyers demand it.

You need to apply for and activate Zero Data Retention (ZDR). It’s not a default setting; it’s an exemption.

Once active, the logging pipeline for abuse monitoring is severed. No storage. No human review. No 30-day cache.

This is the "Black Box" problem. You are relying on a policy (trust) rather than architecture (verification).

For banking, healthcare, or legal apps, "Microsoft promised they only look if it gets flagged" isn't an acceptable defense strategy.