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Draft: Updating Data Classification Standard to include "Confidential" within Customer Data Definition

Kyle Smith requested to merge kylesmith2-master-patch-46204 into master

Why is this change being made?

Related slack convo.

To improve clarity on the definition of Customer Data. Currently, Private is used which is a label that can be applied to Projects, Groups, Sub-Groups, and Profiles. As part of this MR, we're including "Confidential" as that applies to Issues and Epics.

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Edited by Kyle Smith

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