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GitHub Copilot's new policy for AI training is a governance wake-up call

• kevthecoder 5mo ago
  From reading the GitHub privacy statement, I'm interpreting that private repositories won't be used for AI (https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement#private-repositories-github-access https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/gith...). I'd be interested to hear any different though.
  • kevthecoder 5mo ago
    To add a complicating factor, from this blogpost [1] GitHub say's "...if you provide private repository content as input to an AI Feature, we may use that input to improve AI features". So I assume that if you were to supply a significant chunk of code to AI and ask for a code review, then your code could end up in the training data even though it wasn't written by AI (unless you know there's a manual opt-out option [2]). [1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-privacy-statement-and-terms-of-service-how-we-use-your-data/#whats-new-in-the-terms-of-service https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-priv... [2] https://github.com/settings/copilot/features https://github.com/settings/copilot/features