Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

Re:Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy by OtherShrezzing on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @04:21PM (#47522626)

It’s not clear to me how GitHub would enforce the “we don’t use enterprise repos” stuff alongside “we will use free tier copilot for training”.

A user can be a contributor to a private repository, but not have that repository owner organisation’s license to use copilot. They can still use their personal free tier copilot on that repository.

How can enterprises be confident that their IP isn’t being absorbed into the GH models in that scenario?

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Re:Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy by danelski on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @07:53PM (#47524943)

Quite simply, that's just a matter of the corporate internal policy and its (lack of) enforcement. This problem is just a subset of the wider IP breach with some people happily feeding their work documents into the free tier of ChatGPT.

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Re:Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy by martinwoodward on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @05:33PM (#47523581)

We do not train on the contents from any paid organization’s repos, regardless of whether a user is working in that repo with a Copilot Free, Pro, or Pro+ subscription. If a user’s GitHub account is a member of or outside collaborator with a paid organization, we exclude their interaction data from model training.

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Re:Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:48PM (#47526440)

For private repositories under a personal account, if the repo owner has opted out of model training but a collaborator has not, would the collaborator's Copilot interactions with that repo still be used for training?

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Re:Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy by lmc on Thursday March 26, 2026 @01:54AM (#47527035)

Thank you for clarifying this.

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