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Interestingly, it is disabled by default for me.

by archb 6mo ago

gpm 6mo ago
Me too, which is making me wonder if they're planning on silently flipping this setting on April 24th (making it impossible to opt out in advance).
- spiderfarmer 6mo ago
  Is it because I'm in the EU?
  - paularmstrong 6mo ago
    I'm in the US and it's off for me. I believe I've previously opted out of everything copilot related in the past if there was anything.
  - gpm 6mo ago
    I'm in Canada, so not only the EU at least.
- martinwoodward 6mo ago
  We are not. The reason we wanted to announce early was so that folks had plenty of time to opt-out now. We've also added the opt-out setting even if you don't use Copilot so that you can opt-out now before you forget and then if you decide to use Copilot in the future it will remember your preference.
  - pred_ 6mo ago
    Would you be able to comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522876, i.e. explain the legal basis for this change for EU based users? If there is none, you may have to expect that people will exercise their right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
    - ThrowawayB7 6mo ago
      Why would you expect an engineer to be able to comment on legal affairs? Presumably it was cleared with Microsoft's legal department or whatever GitHub's divisional equivalent is.
      - 1718627440 6mo ago
        That's precisely what the term 'engineer' signifies. (I know it gets used incorrectly for software developers.) Workers in general need to decide whether something is legal independently of their company, because the company lawyers have the interest of the company in mind, which might conflict with the workers interest to not do illegal things. Big Tech is known for clearing illegal things by their legal departments all the time.
crashingintoyou 6mo ago
Reading the github blog post "If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retained—your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used for training unless you opt in."
- deleted 6mo ago
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- verdverm 6mo ago
  Is this the new name for the setting? I cannot find one that sounds like the previous one you mention Notable that they have no "privacy" section in account settings
xgdgsc 6mo ago
I guess we have to check out again on April 24 ?

Interestingly, it is disabled by default for me.

by archb 6mo ago

Interestingly, it is disabled by default for me.

gpm 6mo ago

Me too, which is making me wonder if they're planning on silently flipping this setting on April 24th (making it impossible to opt out in advance).

spiderfarmer 6mo ago
Is it because I'm in the EU?
- paularmstrong 6mo ago
  I'm in the US and it's off for me. I believe I've previously opted out of everything copilot related in the past if there was anything.
- gpm 6mo ago
  I'm in Canada, so not only the EU at least.
martinwoodward 6mo ago
We are not. The reason we wanted to announce early was so that folks had plenty of time to opt-out now. We've also added the opt-out setting even if you don't use Copilot so that you can opt-out now before you forget and then if you decide to use Copilot in the future it will remember your preference.
- pred_ 6mo ago
  Would you be able to comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522876, i.e. explain the legal basis for this change for EU based users? If there is none, you may have to expect that people will exercise their right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
  - ThrowawayB7 6mo ago
    Why would you expect an engineer to be able to comment on legal affairs? Presumably it was cleared with Microsoft's legal department or whatever GitHub's divisional equivalent is.
    - 1718627440 6mo ago
      That's precisely what the term 'engineer' signifies. (I know it gets used incorrectly for software developers.) Workers in general need to decide whether something is legal independently of their company, because the company lawyers have the interest of the company in mind, which might conflict with the workers interest to not do illegal things. Big Tech is known for clearing illegal things by their legal departments all the time.

crashingintoyou 6mo ago

Reading the github blog post "If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retained—your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used for training unless you opt in."

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verdverm 6mo ago
Is this the new name for the setting? I cannot find one that sounds like the previous one you mention Notable that they have no "privacy" section in account settings

xgdgsc 6mo ago

I guess we have to check out again on April 24 ?