{
  "slug": "microsoft-teams",
  "category": "team-chat",
  "name": "Microsoft Teams",
  "description": "Microsoft's workplace chat and meeting app with channels, direct messages, video calls and file sharing, part of Microsoft 365, with a free tier for personal use.",
  "website": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software",
  "license": null,
  "platforms": [
    "windows",
    "macos",
    "android",
    "ios",
    "web"
  ],
  "jurisdiction": {
    "code": "US",
    "name": "United States",
    "eyes": "Five Eyes",
    "eu": false,
    "gdpr": false,
    "cloud_act": "provider"
  },
  "pick": false,
  "pick_reason": null,
  "disclosure": null,
  "grade": "F",
  "score": 30,
  "coverage": 100,
  "summary": "Microsoft Teams scores 30 out of 100 (grade F) on the team chat criteria. It meets 1 of 4 criteria: no ads or data sales. It partly meets independent audit. It does not meet open source and no trackers or telemetry. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act.",
  "url": "https://privacyratings.com/team-chat/microsoft-teams/",
  "markdown": "https://privacyratings.com/team-chat/microsoft-teams/index.md",
  "answers": {
    "open_source": {
      "title": "Open source",
      "weight": 3,
      "answer": "no",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Closed source."
    },
    "no_trackers": {
      "title": "No trackers or telemetry",
      "weight": 3,
      "answer": "no",
      "evidence": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement",
      "note": "Microsoft websites use third-party cookies, including for ads, and Teams sends required diagnostic data by default."
    },
    "no_ads": {
      "title": "No ads or data sales",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "yes",
      "evidence": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement",
      "note": "Funded by Microsoft 365 subscriptions with no ads in Teams; the privacy statement says chats and video calls are not used to target ads."
    },
    "independent_audit": {
      "title": "Independent audit",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "partial",
      "evidence": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offering-soc-2",
      "note": "Teams is covered by independent SOC 2 Type 2 audits, but the reports are only available to signed-in Microsoft 365 customers."
    },
    "transparency_report": {
      "title": "Transparency report",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    },
    "user_notice": {
      "title": "Tells users about requests",
      "weight": 1,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    },
    "tls": {
      "title": "TLS configuration",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    },
    "security_headers": {
      "title": "Security headers",
      "weight": 1,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    },
    "web_standards": {
      "title": "Modern web standards",
      "weight": 1,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    }
  },
  "tests": {
    "ssllabs": null,
    "observatory": null,
    "internetnl_web": null,
    "internetnl_mail": null,
    "trackers": [],
    "tested_at": "2026-10-01T06:38:23.043Z"
  },
  "last_modified": "2026-10-01T06:56:31Z"
}