When first connecting to a report in PowerBI you may be prompted to set the Privacy Level of the connection:
Generally, the recommendation is to select Organizational as the privacy level for the report.
From Microsoft's Documentation for PowerBI & Privacy Levels:
Setting | Description | Example data sources |
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Private | Data sources set to Private contain sensitive or confidential information. Visibility can be restricted to authorized users. Data from a private data source won't fold in to other data sources, including other private data sources. | Facebook data, a text file containing stock awards, or a workbook containing employee review information. |
Organizational | Data sources set to Organizational can fold in to private and other organizational data sources. They can't fold in to public data sources. Visibility is set to a trusted group. | A Microsoft Word document on an intranet SharePoint site with permissions enabled for a trusted group. |
Public | Files, internet data sources, and workbook data can be set to Public. Data can fold in to other data sources. Visibility is available to everyone. | Free data from the Azure Marketplace, data from a Wikipedia page, or a local file containing data copied from a public web page. |