> Why are you only using data from individuals while excluding businesses and enterprises?

> Our agreements with Business and Enterprise customers prohibit using their Copilot interaction data for model training, and we honor those commitments. Individual users on Free, Pro, and Pro+ plans have control over their data and can opt out at any time.

Ah, so when the inevitable "bug" appears, and we all learn that you've completely failed to honor anything, what will be your "commitment" then? An apology and a few free months?

Time to start pushing for a self hosted git service again.

To add on to your (already helpful!) instructions:

- Go to https://github.com/settings/copilot/features - Go to the "Privacy" section - Find: "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" - Set to disabled

You can't believe Microslop is force-feeding people Copilot in yet another way?

> and didn't even post the direct URLs to disable in their blog post

You can't believe Microshaft didn't tell you how to not get shafted?

But English is not my first language so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Notable that they have no "privacy" section in account settings

Big Tech is known for clearing illegal things by their legal departments all the time.

Looks like not, but would it actually have been shadier, or are we just used to individual users being fucked over?

People are weirdly willing to shrug when it's some solo coder getting fleeced instead of a company with lawyers and procurement people in the room. If an account tier is doing all the moral cleanup, the policy is bad.

The interesting nuance is the enforcement mechanism. martinwoodward clarified below that exclusion happens at the user level, not the repo level: if you're a member of a paid org, your interaction data is excluded even on a free personal Copilot account. That's actually more protective than I expected — it handles the contractor case where someone works across multiple repos of varying org types.

The remaining ambiguity is temporal: if someone leaves an org, do their historical interactions get retroactively included? Policy answers to that question are hard to verify and even harder to audit.

> Again, your organization's Copilot interaction data is not included in model training under this new policy, but we are excited for you to enjoy the product improvements it will unlock.

It's just unusual how quickly they're going for the shakedown this time

> Business and Copilot Enterprise users are not affected by this update.