Can I turn off Delve and the ability to see Recent Files? #M365AMA

In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:

“Question regarding Teams/SPO/Delve. We want to utilize Planner in some public channels with several Teams. We have one person creating the plan. We’ve found that when a user starts to drill into a user profile they can see “recent files”. I’ve done some research and it appears as though this is controlled though the profile cards, as part of Delve. Users only see files that they have collaborated on, or have permissions to we, if my research is correct. I’ve disabled Delve for the org. Has anyone else seen this and have experience in turning this functionality off? We want to ensure that users are unable to see others files for confidentially reasons.”

Check out the discussion here:

 

Participating in this discussion were:

• Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet 
• Kirsty McGrath @KirstyMcGrath13
• Michelle Gilbert  @MichellesUtopia

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

• Having properly distributed permissions should keep your content secure. If folks are seeing things they “shouldn’t” then permissions are wrong/people are in groups they likely shouldn’t be in. Delve (which works across your content in SharePoint) will not show content that people don’t have permissions to see.
• via Microsoft Support, Are my documents safe in Delve? [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/are-my-documents-safe-in-delve-f5f409a2-37ed-4452-8f61-681e5e1836f3]
• via Bowdoin, How do I turn off Office Delve? [https://bowdoin.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1814/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=81965]